Well, it depends mostly of the place you come from, the gender of your siblings and their situation right now. I will show you the example I know, which is the Castillian System, which, as far as I know, comes from the Wisigothic tradition and has been just slightly modified throughout time (it was fixated as a law in 1505 and our current heritage system, in Spain, is almost the same even today).
In this regime, you are entitled, allegedly, to an equivalent part of the total of your parents' properties, but this assertion has some footnotes we have to clarify. As the testator, your father has to give the equivalent of only TWO THIRDS of his properties to his sons and daughters- they have the same rights as their male counterparts. Anyway, the last third is called the "tercio de mejora" ("improvement third"?), and he has the right to give it to whomever he wants. Usually, this goes to his firstborn SON (not daughter, usually), so as to keep most of his patrimony undivided; but he has the right to divide it, to give it to anyone else or to donate it to the Church if he wants. Also, there is a fifth of the remaining two thirds which is destined to pay for his funeral, tomb and masses dedicated to his soul. This means only four fifhts of two thirds of his patrimony will be equally divided, because he chooses who will administrate the fifth destined to pay for his burial, and, again, it is usually the firstborn man who inherits that: this gives him some extra advantage, as he can keep the remaining money, after paying all of that stuff.
So, now for the four fifhts of the two thirds we go. As I said, you have the right to inherit that part of your family's properties, but that doesn't mean you can choose what you inherit. usually, there is an estimation of the total properties, so as to know how much you have the right to, but it is the testator who chooses to whom he gives every little thing- even the spoons have to be included, even the fucking spoons. This way, of course, your brother will keep the household and the best of your lands, crops and livestock, and, when the Laws of Toro of 1505 are enacted, this will turn into an institution called "mayorazgo", which will be indivisible, can't be sold and must always be inherited by the firstborn MAN- this may cause some big problems, when the lands your oldest brother will inherit won't be useful anymore and he will have to keep them for life.
Once the best part of the four fifths of the two thirds has been given to your brother as an inheritance, the moment he marries, he will have to aggree with the pater familias, i.e. your father, to live with him and share the household, sometimes as the new pater familias, and sometimes under his ruling, up to his death, when he will become the head of your lineage- this may also cause some problems due to cohabitation, but, anyway, will give him one more advantage: he will keep increasing his properties during your father's living. In a few lines you will see what I mean.
Now that your oldest brother has inherited his part of the family's patrimony, it's all of your older siblings' turn. You will have to wait until they marry, join the church, die or join the military to inherit your part. Whenever a brother/sister marries/joins the church the following happens: they claim their part of the inheritance, as a payment for their novitiate year (the time you spend before you become a priest/nun/monk), as a dowry (the money and properties the bride has to contribute to a family when she marries) or as a money to start a family when a man marries (some money and properties a man could inherit to become independent from his parents); and renounce any other improvement they could inherit from your father if he has made some before he dies- this means they inherit just once, and before your father's death, so whatever your father earns after they inherit they won't have the right to claim it.
If all of this happens before you die, if all of your siblings marry or join the Church, and you are still alive to claim your part of the inheritance, you will have the right to receive some wooden spoon and maybe two donkeys. Keep in mind that none of your siblings will be able to marry before your parents have arranged the future (marriage/priestly orders/military carreer) of all of their older siblings, and that means they may get married at 27, even 30 years old, in a time with a lifespan of 45 years and a huge mortality rate. You may be lucky, just if any of your siblings die, because, that way, you may get to inherit something two months before dying.
And, of course, your oldest brother will keep the improvement third, the burial fifth, one fifth of two thirds from the "legítima" (the legitimate part of the inheritance you always have the right to claim) and whatever your father earns after all of you have married and left.
All of this, of course, asuming that your father doesn't have any other child outside marriage, who, if he is acknowledged as a son by your father, has the right to claim his part of the "legítima".
All in all, it is still a better inheritance system that the ones existing in other kingdoms, were the pater familias could give almost everything to just one son.
Enjoy your spoon.