2023-07-02 08:19:46
The omens are good: after the death of an eighty-year-old man, husband and father of two children, there is a will. That alone can give Erben a deep breath. Maybe you don’t quite agree with the content of the document, maybe one of the heirs had hoped for more or something different, but the deceased dealt with death during his lifetime and was aware of the responsibility to sort his estate himself and not to create chaos leave behind. Congratulations for that. The will in this example is based on the so-called Berlin model. Accordingly, the spouses have become the sole heirs. The children get nothing in this first round and will only inherit when the mother has also died. Everything settled, everything fine? Unfortunately, no.
District court shoots across
Inken Schoenauer
Editor in business, responsible for the financial market.
The formalities of the will are all correct. The document is written by hand, there is place, date and the signatures of both spouses. The case has its catch when it comes to the property of the spouses: the paid-off home that was used jointly until the death of the husband and that is also jointly owned by both spouses. Now it is time to go to the district court to delete the deceased from the land register and have the wife entered as the sole owner. routine operation. But the will is not enough for the district court. It will only correct the land register if there is a notarized will or a court-issued certificate of inheritance. As a consequence, this could mean that the will based on the Berlin model, which is very often used in Germany, should also be authenticated by a notary.
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