BRANDI lawyers.
Franz Pieper
About me
- Born in 1953
- Legal studies at Bielefeld University
- State bar exam and admission to the bar in 1982, with the firm since then
- Appointment as notary in 1991
- Certified Specialized Attorney in Tenancy and Condominium Law since 2005
- Certified Specialized Attorney in Inheritance Law since 2009
- Board member of the Hamm Bar Association
- President of the Anwaltverein Minden e.V. (Minden law association) (until May 2013)
- Vice-President of Haus und Grund Minden e.V.
Competence
Tenancy law, real estate marketing and management
Commercial tenancy and lease law
- General lease agreements
- Contracts for special real estate (shopping centers, specialist retail centers, factory outlet centers, real estate for senior citizens/care homes, office buildings, medical practices)
- Real estate transactions (purchase and sale, leasing, due diligence, rent guarantee)
- Collection of outstanding payments
- Modernization, maintenance, repairs
- Defense against/enforcement of warranty claims
- Rent increase
- Operating costs
- Facility management
- Center management
Brokerage law
- Contract design
- Assertion of and defense against claims for brokerage fees
Residential tenancy law
- Drafting of leases
- Termination (of residential tenancies)
Condominium ownership
- Creation and modification of condominium of residential and non-residential units
- House rules
- Rights of exclusive use
- Meeting of condominium owners
- Position of the administrator
- Administrative advisory board
- Leasing of residential and non-residential condominium units
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
Publications
Memberships
- Deutscher Anwalt Verein (DAV)
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Erbrecht im DAV
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Miet- und Immobilienrecht im DAV
- Deutscher Mietgerichtstag e.V.