Karen Walsh: How do we divide land between our two children who don't get along?

You could place the land on the market for sale or direct in your will that the land be sold and the proceeds divided between them equally.

Dear Karen, 

We are a couple in our 70s and we want to give the farmland to our two children now rather than leave it in our wills, but the difficulty, unfortunately, is our son and daughter do not get along and have not done so for many years. They barely talk. We don’t farm anymore — we have the land rented out to a farmer tenant. We have 120 acres and were wondering what’s the best way to deal with the land given the fact that there is not a good relationship between our two children, which greatly saddens us. Hopefully, someday they will make it up. We’d like to be practical on how we deal with the land.