Disputes over family land are rarely about law. They are about undocumented arrangements made decades ago by people who are no longer there to confirm them.
Write down what everyone already knows
Begin with a family deed of settlement or a declaration of trust recording the current understanding: who holds, who occupies, who may sell, and what happens on death. It is not glamorous work, and it prevents the majority of litigation we are later asked to run.
A document signed at a family meeting costs less than one week of a land dispute in the High Court.
Where the holding is substantial, consider a private trust or a holding company with clearly drafted transfer restrictions. Both put a decision-making structure around the asset and remove the need for consensus among an ever-expanding class of beneficiaries.
Perfect the title while the elders can still identify the boundaries. Survey plans, charting and a registered root of title convert oral history into something a court can act on.