John, I am sure that laws regarding minors receiving property varies from state to state. In North Carolina minors can receive property. Below is information from North Carolina Real Estate Searches, by Lilona S. & Gregory W. Schiro, published in 1982, p. 174. " A grantee need not be competent, since a minor or incompetent person can receive and hold title to real estate as long as he has the capacity to receive the title. For an individual, capacity usually means that he must have been in existence at the time of the conveyance. For example, if a grantee were dead at the time of the execution, no title would pass. However, if a grantee had not yet been born but he was born within 280 days from the execution, he would have been considered 'en esse' at the time of the conveyance and capable of receiving title." There is a footnote after the last sentence. G.C.41-5; Mackie v. Mackie, 230 N.C. 152, 52 S. E. 2nd 352 (1959) (construing the terms "in esse" in G.S. 51-5 to be presumed to mean a 280-day period before birth. Therefore, it would not be necessary for the children of Thomas Daniel (Media; John; Rufus W.; Thomas, Jr; James; and Sabrina) would not have had to be 21 years old at the time of the division of the Thomas Daniel property. Regards, Dora Pearce