Inheritance law / Succession

Areas of expertise

Our specialised team advises you on the conceptualisation and implementation of a succession plan tailored to your family situation and asset structure both upon death and inter vivos. Private assets, companies, private foundations or charitable foundations: at MP Law you will find comprehensive succession planning advice from a single source. Our team also boasts considerable expertise on matters of cross-border succession cases. Furthermore, we regularly represent clients before the courts in probate proceedings and contentious inheritance cases.

Our main areas of advice in inheritance law particularly include:

• Advising private individuals, entrepreneurs and founders on the design of concepts for asset transfer.
• Establishing, amending, and reviewing testamentary dispositions and providential powers of attorney
• Drafting and securing anticipated succession concepts inter vivos, in particular through gifts and the granting of usufruct rights
• Representation in probate proceedings, support in the handling of probate with notaries (inventory, fulfilment of legacies, determination of compulsory portion claims, …)
• Representation in contentious inheritance law cases before the courts, in particular actions for compulsory portions and contestations of wills
• Advice on international inheritance law matters or disputes
• Developing and implementing concepts for corporate succession, including inheritance law issues and structuring options
• Advising and implementing philanthropic/charitable asset succession models

Industries

Private foundations | International inheritance law