Do you want to prepare your inheritance? Are you facing a blocked inheritance or a disputed legacy? A lawyer specialized in Inheritance Law and Estate Planning can advise you.
Whether it's to anticipate the inheritance and organize the succession plan optimally, or to structure your estate and tax-efficiently optimize the transfer of inheritance, the inheritance and estate lawyer advises you and implements all the necessary actions to ensure the legal security of your decisions: donations, wills, life insurance, etc.
They help you structure your estate. This allows you to optimize it fiscally and legally for transfer purposes. They make sure that your wishes are respected while guaranteeing the necessary safeguards to avoid future disputes.
At the opening of the inheritance before the Notary, the inheritance lawyer supports you in gathering all useful information, verifying accounts, and the legality of previous acts. The experience of our law firm allows us to lift the inheritance blockage and convince co-heirs to achieve the most favorable division of the inheritance.
Finally, if inheritance litigation is unavoidable, the specialist inheritance lawyer will vigorously defend you to obtain the best judicial outcome!
The ODYSE Law Firm, based in Paris, operates throughout France for all cases of national inheritance law. Our lawyers specialized in inheritance also assist clients in international inheritance matters where French law applies in whole or in part. With their expertise, they guarantee tailor-made solutions.
Moreover, our lawyers have essential related legal skills to master all patrimonial and inheritance issues. This includes Tax Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, Filiation Law, and Law of Protected Adults, offering you comprehensive and rigorous support.
At the death of individuals, their inheritance is opened. This transfer to their heirs of their estate is a major legal event. The inheritance consists of complex rights which can sometimes conflict. The heirs are not always in agreement.
The inheritance settlement can only be amicable or judicial. Otherwise, the inheritance remains indefinitely blocked.
Thus, our law firm specialized in inheritance law and estate law puts all its experience and skills at your service, whether in the context of an open inheritance, assisting you to obtain the most favorable division, or in case of inheritance disputes by providing you with the best defense!
Of course, our specialized lawyers advise you upstream to avoid potential disputes by optimizing your estate and securing its transfer.
At CABINET ODYSE, we are committed to providing quality legal support in the field of inheritances and estate management. Our team of experts is dedicated to helping you navigate legal complexities with clarity and transparency.
With significant experience, we have assisted numerous families in managing their estates. Our personalized approach ensures each client receives advice tailored to their unique situation.
An inheritance can / must be anticipated. Several methods are available to you to ensure that the transfer of your estate is as close as possible to your wishes and avoids the application of default legal rules.
The advice of an inheritance lawyer is then necessary to prepare your inheritance. They develop with you a true inheritance strategy. They will do everything possible to prevent conflicts between heirs by ensuring the legal security of your decisions.
The inheritance law specialist lawyer will help you structure your assets to optimize tax-wise your inheritance and protect your loved ones.
An amicable division of an inheritance requires the agreement of all heirs. Each co-owner then receives assets for a value equal to their rights in the undivided property.
But in case of a deadlock and before resorting to a heavier judicial procedure, the intervention of an inheritance lawyer can help find a satisfactory solution for everyone and thus avoid a waste of time and unnecessary costs.
And even if the intervention of a specialized inheritance lawyer is not mandatory during this amicable phase, it nevertheless represents a considerable asset to make your claims heard. They will defend you before the notary or against the co-heirs. The convincing power of our lawyers is then crucial!
If there is no agreement between the heirs on the division of the estate, the High Court of the place of the opening of the succession (last domicile of the deceased) must be seized, which will order the judicial division. The Judge is seized by a assignment for division with mandatory representation by a lawyer.
A prior amicable attempt must be demonstrated.
It is then possible to ask the judge to be assigned certain assets of the inheritance. The preferential allocation may notably concern the housing or the businesses.
In all cases, if you are involved in a difficult inheritance, the advice of an inheritance lawyer is useful to obtain its unblocking and hope for a favorable amicable division.
Otherwise, if the deadlock is insurmountable, the presence of a specialized inheritance lawyer is then mandatory to protect your inheritance interests by forcing the judicial division.
The writing of a will, its interpretation, its validity, are major issues in an inheritance. Indeed, it is the regular cause of conflicts at the opening of the inheritance.
For a will to be valid, it is necessary that its author (the testator) is of sound mind and legally capable.
In form, the will may take the form of a holographic or authentic will. The will is holographic when it is written, dated, and signed by the testator themselves without formal conditions. Conversely, the will is authentic when it is passed before a notary in the presence of two witnesses.
On the substance, the drafting of the will is not free in the presence of reserved heirs. The law regulates and protects the rights of each. Indeed, the will must not deprive or reduce the reserved portion of these heirs.
The advice of an inheritance lawyer is necessary to ensure that your will will not be challenged. They help you draft it or can receive and check it to prevent any dispute.
Conversely, in the case of a difficult inheritance, our law firm assists you to contest the validity of a will and request its annulment.
The donation is an act by which the donor transfers during their lifetime the ownership of an asset to a beneficiary, the donee. It takes three forms: the manual gift, the gift of use, or the donation by notarial act. There are three legal types of donation: the donation with usufruct reservation, the gradual donation, and the partition donation.
The donation is presumed to be made by principle as an advancement on inheritance share. This means the donation will be deducted from the heir’s share, ensuring equality among heirs.
The donation must not infringe on the reserved share of the descendants or the surviving spouse. If it does, it will be subject to reduction during the settlement of the donor’s inheritance.
The donation is therefore a valuable tool to prepare your inheritance. But it must be properly established to avoid future inheritance disputes!
Your inheritance lawyer advises you to ensure the best use of the donation. They defend you in case of inheritance contestation to reintegrate donations in the estate or challenge abuses.
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