Law of Succession

You have questions regarding last wills, bequests or legal successions? You look for experts to help you with a business succession?

In probate/last wills you in general are legally bound to your citizenship except you are a passport holder of the Anglo-American nations. That means that Germans have to rely on the German legal system if they wish to lay down the clauses of their last will. That might be different concerning real estate according to the principles of Private International Law.

We support you in working out the consequences of who might inherit from whom and the understanding the German approach of statutory portion/obligatory share (Pflichtteilsrecht).

We are prepared to check your ideas and proposals in the light of the law. Furthermore we support you in administration/execution of wills and all questions of succession.