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