Individual questions

Obligation to deliver wills

Adoption and inheritance law

Contestation of the acceptance of inheritance or failure to meet the deadline

Edition in the will

Settlement of the community of heirs

The heir's right to information from banks

Right to information of the person entitled to a compulsory portion vis-à-vis the heirs

Waiver of the inheritance

Waiver of inheritance for minor children

Bank accounts in the estate

Disability will

Berlin will: The most common mistakes

Marital home and real estate after the death of the spouse

Disinheritance - How the heirs go away empty-handed

Inheritance cancellation in the case of an incapacitated heir

Community of heirs

Community of heirs - liability of heirs towards third parties

Heirs' recourse through the social welfare organisation

Testator cared for: Claims against co-heirs?

Debts of the testator

Inheritance law of the state

Inheritance law and divorce

Inheritance and social welfare

Inheritance tax - notification of inheritance to the tax office

Inheritance tax in the community of heirs

Inheritance tax reporting by banks

Inheritance tax law in international inheritance cases

Inheritance tax law: Real estate in inheritance tax law

Certificate of inheritance

Inheritance contract and marriage contract: what's the difference?

Inheritance contract: the most common misunderstandings

Inheritance contract: surrender of impairing gifts

Substitute inheritance - plan B for the succession

Shareholder as testator

Grave maintenance costs

Matrimonial property regime: The influence of the matrimonial property regime on inheritance

Alternative courses of action for the heir in the event of an encumbered inheritance

Competition between post-mortem power of attorney and execution of a will

Several wills drawn up - how to deal with them?

Do capital gains on inherited property or property received as a gift (real estate, condominiums, heritable building rights) have to be taxed in Germany?

Probate insolvency proceedings

Probate guardian - restrictions on the scope of action and tasks

Probate guardianship - securing the estate after inheritance

Estate liabilities

Estate administration

Usufruct - Transfer of real estate subject to usufruct as a means of structuring anticipated succession

Emergency wills - admissibility and effects of the corona pandemic

Mandatory portion

Compulsory portion: On the amount of the spouse's compulsory portion

Waiver of compulsory portion and inheritance

Claim to a compulsory portion - Necessary information in the estate register

Right to a compulsory portion - Deferral of the compulsory portion

Problems with compulsory portions in company succession

Right to a compulsory portion - marital benefit

Mandatory portion penalty clauses and their pitfalls

Comparison of compulsory portions

Cancellation of the renunciation

Promise of gift by reason of death

Foundations as an alternative to inheritance law

Partial certificate of inheritance

Partition arrangement in the will

Partition auction

Will - interpretation of the will in the event of ambiguities

Wills: Subsequent amendment

Granting of probate

Certificate of executorship

Execution of wills

Execution of the will - appointment of the executor

Testamentary capacity

Sale of the inherited portion

Bequest - When the object of the estate no longer belongs to the estate

Pre- and post-inheritance

Advance of the spouse

Pre-inheritance and post-inheritance

Healthcare proxy

What is meant by supplementing the compulsory portion?

Valuation claim of the beneficiary of the compulsory portion

Revocation of inheritance contracts and spouse's wills

Cancellation of a gift

Additional mandatory part

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