A second generational handover reveals what the first one taught.

Families learn how to pass on property mostly by watching it happen once. So the second handover is often a direct answer to the first.

Say a grandfather died with no will and a house in his name, and it took his children years to wind up the estate. They queued at the Master's office, hunted for marriage certificates, and argued about whether the house should be sold or kept. Children who lived through that tend to come out of it with firm habits. They make wills early and keep the title deed where others can find it.

Now picture a different family, where the first handover was smooth because a careful grandmother arranged everything with an attorney before she died. Her children inherited without effort, and that is exactly the trouble. They never saw the work, so they assume it does itself. I think that is why the second handover in a well-run family can be messier than the first, with no will drawn and the house still sitting in a late parent's name.

So the second transfer is less a test of the property than of what the first one left behind in people's habits. A family that remembers the pain usually has its papers in order. One that never felt any often has to learn it fresh, at the worst possible time.