INHERITANCE LAW AND SUCCESSION

When it comes to arranging succession in a company or one’s personal legacy, advice is a matter of trust. A competent and reliable partner is also needed when conflicts under inheritance law have to be settled or pacified.

 

Right from the beginning of our law firm, assisting entrepreneurs and private individuals in matters of inheritance law has been one of our core competencies. We have the economic understanding and the comprehensive knowledge of corporate law to arrange the succession of assets with the business owner or shareholder according to their ideas; to provide the right answers for issues of inheritance law in the private sphere, we have the necessary intuition in addition to sound legal expertise and clout.

 

We will be happy to advise and support you in the precise drafting of anticipated succession, partnership agreements, wills, or inheritance contracts. If you are looking for legal representation to successfully assert your claims as an heir, legatee, or beneficiary of a compulsory portion out of court or in court, or to defend against such claims once and for all, you will find it with us. Of course, you are also in good hands with us when it comes to the execution of wills.

Focal Points

Succession in the business sphere

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Erbrechtliche Gestaltungen in Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Satzung

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Entrepreneur’s wills

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Preparation and design of anticipated successions

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Transfer of businesses or company shares to the next generation

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Minors in succession planning

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Dealing with heirs and communities of heirs to shareholdings

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Rights of heirs to shareholdings

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Execution of wills and undertakings or participations

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Withdrawal of heirs from the company

Succession in the private sphere/general law of succession

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Advice on the effective drafting of testamentary dispositions

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Design of wills

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Drafting of inheritance contracts

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Design of spousal wills

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Determination of legacies and conditions

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Statutory and voluntary advance bequests

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Exclusion from succession

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Repudiation of an inheritance

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Appointment to the compulsory portion

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Calculation of compulsory portion

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Claims to information under inheritance law

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Legal succession

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Drafting and negotiation of inheritance partition agreements

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Enforcement of inheritance claims

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Assertion and enforcement of claims for compulsory portions and compulsory portion supplements

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Inheritance certificate procedure

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Anticipated succession

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Donations