The Minnesota Cabin Planning Guide & Workbook: The Essential Guide for Keeping the Cabin in the Family

What will happen with your cabin after you’re gone?

In an ideal world, when you died you would give the cabin to your family and they would naturally work out among themselves who was going to be there when, how the bills were going to get paid, and how the upkeep was going to be managed. Even among family members that get along well, there's a ton of small, and not so small, disagreements that can arise when people have shared use and shared responsibility for a property without some system in place for establishing how rules and decisions are going to be made. Keeping your cabin a place of tranquility and happiness for your family takes some forethought.

That doesn't mean it has to be hard, though.
The Minnesota Cabin Planning Guide & Workbook is designed to pose the questions that you didn't know you needed to ask and to provide you with some ideas and options that could help you in figuring it out. You can use the guide as a road map in navigating the discussion with your family and as the starting place in working with your attorney.

You will learn about:

• The all-too-common scenarios that can happen for your family
• The questions you need to ask to craft a plan that fits your family and your goals
• The planning options that are available to you, and what the default plan is under the law
• The process you can go through that keeps your cabin planning on track

Kimberly M. Hanlon is a Minnesota attorney and founder of the boutique estate and business firm Kimberly M. Hanlon, LLC. She lives in Minneapolis.