Succession Planning

Shaping the Future with Foresight

Succession planning means taking responsibility – for the people who matter to you, your wealth, your business and your personal values.

We develop solutions that are legally sound, commercially sound and tailored to your individual circumstances – where appropriate, in close coordination with tax advisers and other trusted professionals.

Our Services

  • Wills
  • Lifetime gifts and estate transfers during lifetime
  • Marriage contracts and inheritance agreements
  • Business succession and succession planning for family-owned companies
  • Foundations and family holding structures
  • Lasting powers of attorney, living wills and advance care directives
  • Complex family situations (e.g. minor or vulnerable children)

We support you in structuring your succession at an early stage and with clarity, ensuring that your intentions are implemented securely and potential conflicts are avoided.

In doing so, we keep family and corporate structures, commercial interests, tax considerations and international aspects firmly in view. The result is succession solutions designed to endure – legally, economically and personally.

Inheritance Law

Creating Clarity When It Matters Most

An inheritance matter involves not only legal questions, but often deeply personal and emotional issues as well.

Our aim is to guide you through these situations with structure and clarity – helping to preserve trust and, where an amicable resolution is not possible, asserting your interests with determination and precision.

Our Services

  • Disputes between heirs, co-heirs and beneficiaries
  • Forced heirship claims (assertion and defence)
  • Contesting wills and probate disputes
  • Estate administration and probate proceedings
  • Estate distribution and settlement between heirs
  • Inheritance tax declarations

Whether through amicable resolution or in contentious disputes, we represent your interests with experience, strategic foresight and the sensitivity these matters require.

ESTATE ADMINISTRATION & EXECUTORS

Administered with Care. Guided by Trust.

Thoughtful succession planning proves its value in its implementation.

Professional estate administration provides security, relieves the burden on family members and ensures the reliable execution of a person’s final wishes – today and for the next generation.

Our Role as Executors

  • Implementation of complex testamentary arrangements
  • Administration and safeguarding of estate assets
  • Structured administration of estates involving multiple heirs
  • Protection of minor, inexperienced or vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Transparent and clear communication with all parties involved

We undertake this role either personally or through BORSDORFF Testamentsvollstreckung GmbH, which provides a structured and professional framework for complex estate administrations.

In this way, we combine personal responsibility with institutional stability and create the foundation for a reliable and sustainable administration process.

The appointment of an executor is particularly advisable where estates include business assets, young or internationally based heirs, family tensions, vulnerable beneficiaries, extensive legacies or foundation structures.

As experienced executors, we ensure that your final wishes are carried out reliably, securely and in accordance with your intentions.

We manage the administration – and, where appropriate, the long-term management – of the estate with care, independence and loyalty to the wishes of the deceased.

In addition to serving as executors, we advise beneficiaries and executors on all legal matters arising in connection with estate administration under an executorship.

LEGAL ADVICE RELATING TO ESTATE ADMINISTRATION AND EXECUTORSHIPS

In addition to acting as executors ourselves, we also advise and represent heirs and executors in all legal matters relating to the administration of estates subject to executorship arrangements.

In this role, we do not act as executors, but as independent legal advisers at your side.

Our Services

  • Advising executors on their rights and duties
  • Assistance with the administration, management and distribution of estates
  • Advising heirs in the assertion or defence of claims
  • Support in disputes between heirs and executors
  • Oversight and legal review of estate administration
  • Court representation of executors or heirs in contentious proceedings

We clarify rights and obligations, guide our clients through sensitive situations and enforce legitimate claims consistently – both in and out of court.