Estate administration and distribution
Handling judicial and notarial estate administration, including cases involving minor heirs, heirs lacking legal capacity or heirs living abroad.
Our practice areas
Succession Law
Estate planning, estate administration and distribution handled discreetly to protect the assets you have built and preserve family relationships.
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Our
practice
Succession is both a property matter and a family matter. Treating it only as a calculation of shares often leads to disputes; treating it only as a sensitive subject often leads to missed deadlines and tax issues. We work on both fronts.
In planning, we organise the transfer of assets during your lifetime, using wills, gifts with a reserved usufruct and family company structures, always respecting forced heirs' reserved shares.
In estate administration, we handle the court or notarial procedure from start to finish: identifying assets, determining debts, paying ITCMD inheritance tax, distributing the estate and transferring ownership.
What we do
Services in Succession Law
Estate planning
Organising asset transfers during your lifetime, assessing each instrument's tax costs and impact on the family.
Wills
Drafting and reviewing notarial and private wills, with attention to the limits of the freely disposable portion.
Family holding company
Structuring companies to manage and transfer family assets, with clear governance rules.
Heirs and reserved shares
Identifying forced heirs, calculating shares and defending disputed inheritance rights.
Assets abroad
Coordinating succession involving assets or heirs in multiple countries and different legal systems.
Your rights, always by your side
How
we handle
your case
- 01
Mapping the estate
We identify assets, debts, the matrimonial property regime and family composition before proposing any structure.
- 02
Scenarios and costs
We compare alternatives by tax cost, timeline and the risk of disputes between heirs.
- 03
Suitable instruments
We draft the necessary documents and oversee their formalisation before a notary or court.
- 04
Ongoing support
We review the plan whenever the family, the law or the assets change.
Frequently asked questions
Questions
we often
hear
Can't find your question? Write to us: we answer every message personally.
Ask a questionWhen can an estate be administered through a notary?
When all heirs are adults, have legal capacity and agree on distribution, and there is no will requiring court proceedings. The notarial procedure is usually much faster.
Is there a deadline to begin estate administration?
Yes. States generally require it to begin within 60 days of death, with penalties on ITCMD inheritance tax for delay. The deadline runs even while the family is gathering documents.
Can I leave all my assets to one person?
Generally, no. Where there are forced heirs — descendants, ascendants and a spouse — half the estate is reserved for them by law. The other half may be allocated freely.
Is estate planning only for large estates?
No. Even one property justifies planning: the costs and strain of poorly prepared estate administration are not proportional to the size of the estate.
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