{"id":1059,"date":"2021-06-30T07:27:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T05:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/internationales-erbrecht\/erbrecht-in-der-eu\/erbrecht-im-ausland\/der-deutsch-polnische-erbfall\/wie-erbt-der-ueberlebende-ehegatte\/"},"modified":"2021-06-30T07:27:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T05:27:34","slug":"how-the-surviving-spouse-inherits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/internationales-erbrecht\/erbrecht-in-der-eu\/erbrecht-im-ausland\/der-deutsch-polnische-erbfall\/wie-erbt-der-ueberlebende-ehegatte\/","title":{"rendered":"How does the surviving spouse inherit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The surviving spouse is only entitled to inherit if the spouses are not in the so-called <strong>Separation<\/strong> Having lived together, Art. 935 of the Swiss Civil Code. Separation (separation of bed and board) is a preliminary form of divorce. It becomes legally binding through a court decision.<\/p>\n<p>If the surviving spouse is entitled to inherit, they inherit equal shares alongside the deceased&#039;s descendants. However, they never receive less than one-quarter. If there are no descendants of the deceased, they inherit equal shares alongside the deceased&#039;s parents. Furthermore, they can claim the jointly owned household items. This claim is asserted like a legacy, Art. 939 \u00a7 1 of the Swiss Civil Code. For further questions, please contact your specialist lawyer for inheritance law in D\u00fcsseldorf and Krefeld, Dr. Michael Gottschalk.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Der \u00fcberlebende Ehegatte ist nur dann erbberechtigt, wenn die Ehegatten nicht in der sogenannten Separation gelebt haben, Art. 935 ZGB. Die Separation (Trennung von Tisch und Bett) ist eine Vorform der Scheidung. Sie wird durch Gerichtsentscheid rechtskr\u00e4ftig. Ist der \u00fcberlebende Ehegatte erbberechtigt, erbt er neben Abk\u00f6mmlingen des Erblassers zu gleichen Teilen. Er erh\u00e4lt aber nie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":420,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1059","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1059\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}