 lack of legal and tax knowledge uh... usually than it is some kind of sophisticated argument that you're there but you can i mean you can use a life estate if you want to it's okay especially if you're not planning on selling the property like if it's a family farm and you were going to pass it down a hundred percent it's going to be generational we're just not going to be selling it then sure you know that's fine you go ahead and do a life estate and