Parents often want to support their children financially during their lifetime. There are three options to choose from: advance inheritance, gift or family loan. Each option has different legal and tax consequences.

Parents of children with a mental or physical disability often ask themselves a key question when planning their estate: do they have to explicitly take their child’s disability into account when drawing up their will or inheritance contract? If so, the question then arises as to whether this could have an impact on social security […]

Germany, Austria and Switzerland have relatively similar legal systems in a global comparison. At the same time, the differences that exist between the regulations in detail should not be underestimated. This also applies to inheritance law. In the following text, we will show you the most important similarities and differences between the three countries.

Young people usually have both time and energy, but often lack the money. Many parents would therefore like to make a large financial or material contribution to their children during their lifetime instead of leaving them an inheritance after their death. Read here about what you should bear in mind when making an advance inheritance […]

When writing a will, it can happen that errors creep in that render the will or individual provisions invalid or even void. The use of a so-called severability clause can provide a remedy.

The descendants of every testator are entitled to a statutory entitlement, which in principle may not be withdrawn from them. In this text we explain what this means for your will and what alternative solutions there are.

Internet accounts are becoming an increasingly important part of our lives – but what happens to them afterwards? We will show you which precautions you can take with the ‘digital estate’ in order to handle it as smoothly as a ‘classic’ inheritance.