Agri solicitor Aisling Meehan shares her advice on going into partnership with a niece or nephew if there are no children interested in inheriting the farm.

She says that this can be done, but highlighted the point that partnership is not a transfer of assets.

She explained how a partnership is where the owner makes the land and entitlements available for use by the partnership.

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The problem of who the farm will be inherited by would still have to be addressed.

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