Every year, a considerable amount of assets is inherited in Germany. To ensure that you, as a potential heir as well as testator, know that your assets are in the right hands, DR KREUZER RECHTSANWÄLTE advises you in Nuremberg and Dresden. After all, our clients should be aware of the possibilities and "stumbling blocks" involved.

Inheritance law problems are for example

• Constantly increasing claims of the tax authorities to inheritance tax
• Claims of spouses, parents and children for their compulsory portion
• Divorce of marriages, premarital children and the emergence of patchwork families
• The lack of separation of private assets and business assets
• The lack of guidelines for the protection and settlement of larger estates, as well as those of greater value
• The existence of a foreign connection due to testators with foreign nationality or assets held abroad
• The appointment of an executor.

Before the inheritance
Our attorneys at law will be pleased to advise you on the structuring possibilities of the German Civil Code, the German Commercial Code and the German Civil Partnership Act. Special attention should be paid to the succession in business assets (sole proprietorship, limited partnership shares, limited liability company participations) as well as the possibilities for controlled and staggered transfer of assets during the lifetime of the deceased, so that you have the possibility to regulate your succession in the best possible way.

In detail, our attorneys for inheritance law draft and negotiate for you

• Wills with instructions on the appointment of heirs, legacies, stipulations, division of property, execution of wills, clarification of binding effect and rights of contestation
• Inheritance contracts, also with waiver of compulsory portion or waiver of inheritance against compensation
• Drafting of regulations on unworthiness to inherit and deprivation of compulsory portion
• Lasting powers of attorney, care orders and patient wills
• Succession clauses under company and corporate law to ensure the best possible succession planning.
   

After the inheritance
the attorneys of our law firm will advise and represent you with regard to the disclaimer or acceptance, enforcement or defense of your inheritance rights through

• Examining the necessity of disclaimer, rights of contestation and possibilities of limiting liability to the estate
• Appointment of guardians of the estate and control of executors of wills
• Assertion of rights to the compulsory portion (rights to a compulsory portion) and other claims for information and accounting in the main area of inheritance law
• Assistance in the procedure for the granting of a certificate of inheritance (granting of a certificate of inheritance; also of a foreign certificate of inheritance or a European certificate of inheritance/EU certificate of inheritance in case of foreign contact)
• Determination and settlement of the estate (preparation of a partition plan, if necessary by filing a lawsuit) including negotiations with the other co-heirs in handling correspondence with tax offices, notaries, land registers, insurance companies and banks
• Advice in the event of a partition auction

Out-of-court dispute resolution
In all legal matters we act on the one hand out of court to avoid court proceedings by negotiating with co-heirs, executors, tax offices, legal guardians, insurance companies, banks and notaries. On the other hand, we also represent the interests of our clients in court proceedings before probate and finance courts as well as the courts of ordinary jurisdiction.

International Inheritance Law
In the case of cross-border estates or decedents with foreign nationality, we clarify with our clients

• The jurisdiction of the German or foreign probate court
• The determination of the heir according to German or foreign law
• The determination of the estate as well as the succession to each individual item according to German or foreign law
• And conduct the correspondence with consulates and foreign probate courts.

In doing so, we have access to the respective country-specific know-how directly through our partners in the ij INTERNATIONAL JURISTS - Group, in which we have played a leading role in determining the required service levels since 1992.

Cooperation with banks, insurance companies, notaries, appraisers and estate agents
Where required by the task at hand, we work together with our cooperation partners in Nuremberg and Dresden, e.g. from the fields of banks, insurance companies, notaries, sworn appraisers or inheritance mediators.

The general conditions of public and private Corporate and Commercial Law forms the core of our consulting activity.

Our range of advice comprises in particular questions of the form of a contract before the conclusion of a legal relationship.