Inheritance and Family Law
Ahlers & Vogel offer comprehensive advice to entrepreneurs and private individuals in all areas of Inheritance Law and company succession. Structuring private assets and handing them on to the next generation as well as organizing the succession in a family business are a focal point of our consultation practice. The closest attention is thereby given to the complex interplay of Company, Inheritance, Family and Tax Law in order to ensure optimization of the structure created for the client under the provisions of Inheritance Law.When structuring succession under the aspects of Tax Law we work closely with our clients' tax consultants and accountants.
We also advise on disputes under Inheritance Law, such as for example the assertion or warding off of claims for a compulsory1 portion or other inheritance disputes.
1In cases of exclusion from succession by will or contract of inheritance, descendants, parents or spouses are entitled (in German law) to payment of a compulsory portion of the inheritance