Hartmut Sandering

Asset planning, succession, succession law

Succession law

• Design of last wills
• Revocation of a last will
• Contracts of inheritance (notarial)
• Withdrawal from a contract of inheritance
• Directions pertaining to legacies and conditions
• Prior and subsequent succession, also excepted prior succession
• Order of the execution of a will
• Will to the benefit of persons with disabilities, in need or overly indebted
• Provisions for the offsetting and balancing of gifts
• Renunciation of inheritance
• Renunciation to the compulsory portion
• Inheritance tax
• Agricultural succession law (farm regulations)
• Determination of the legal succession including spousal inheritance rights
• Acceptance and renunciation of the inheritance
• Contesting of the acceptance of an inheritance
• Securing the estate through curatorship of the estate
• Liabilities of the heirs, obligations of the estate
• Administration of estates
• Insolvency of estates
• Community of heirs
• Contesting a will
• Interpretation of a will
• Accepting or rejecting the office of the executor
• Remuneration of the executor
• Dismission of the executor from office
• Compulsory portion regulations
• Obligation of the heir to furnish information
• Offsetting of gifts against the compulsory portion
• Request for the issuance of a certificate of inheritance
• Revocation of a certificate of inheritance
• Purchase of an inheritance, transfer of shares of an inheritance

Asset succession and company succession

• Succession planning
• Legal and tax succession model
• Prevention of claims for compulsory portions
• Anticipated succession
• Transfer of company assets
• Foundation of family-owned businesses/family pools
• Establishment of foundations
• Sale of companies
• Enduring power of attorney
• Entrepreneur's last wills, testamentary and prenuptial of the entrepreneur
• Execution of wills (e.g. in case of underage heirs)
• Transfer agreements
• Agreements on the renunciation of the compulsory portion
• Lump sum provisions

Asset planning

• Legal structuring of (family-owned) companies
• Prenuptial agreements