Q: My father & brothers inherited their fathers’s land in Puerto Rico. Taxes are paid but one member is not paying.
All the paperwork for property to be divided is done. But we can’t get titles because he is not paying CRIM the taxes. How do we force him to pay so we can all get titles?
A: Property taxes on an hereditary estate are the responsibility of all of the heirs, not just one of them. Any one of you can pay the CRIM taxes. At the time of dividing the estate, the heir that paid the taxes may recover the portions of said payment that should've been paid by the other heirs.
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