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Inheritance and family law
In the heart of Zurich

Inheritance and family law

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Our law firm provides comprehensive advice and assistance in all aspects of inheritance and family law, including related areas of law on both a national and an international level.

We support you with proactive, personalized matrimonial property and estate planning tailored to your needs, as well as with the litigation and enforcement of your rights in inheritance and family law matters.

Our guidance covers estate planning and administration, inheritance disputes, lifetime asset structuring and disposition as well as emergency and advance care planning.

Furthermore we assist you in all matters of family law. This includes in particular: marriage contracts, divorces, maintenance (alimony) calculations and child-related issues.

    • Inheritance planning

      • Wills

      • Inheritance contracts, renunciations of inheritance, buyouts of inheritance shares, advances on inheritance

      • Legacy agreements

      • Lifetime transfer of real estate and property

      • Usufructs and residential rights

      • Business succession

      • Establishment of lifetime foundations and testamentary foundations

    • Matrimonial property planning

      • in particular marriage contracts

    • Review of existing matrimonial property and inheritance plans

    • Advisory services for family offices and fiduciary offices

    • Tax planning (in cooperation with our tax experts)

    • Division of estates

    • Representation of heirs

    • Estate management

    • Execution of wills

    • Measures to secure the succession process

    • Advice regarding acceptance or renunciation of inheritance

    • Councelling of heirs, estate administrators and executors

    • Inheritance tax proceedings

    • Pre-litigation investigations and clarifications

    • Analysis of litigation opportunities and risks

    • Conducting out-of-court settlement negotiations

    • Judicial enforcement of claims

    • Judicial defense against unfounded claims

    • Enforcement of court decisions

    • Matrimonial property planning

      • Marriage contracts

      • Advance care planning

    • Cohabitation agreements and registered partnerships agreements

    • Protective measures (of the martial union) in case of separation

      • Conducting out-of-court settlement negotiations

      • Separation agreements

      • Child-related matters

      • Maintenance law (almonies)

      • Judicial enforcement of claims

      • Judicial defense against unfounded claims

      • Enforcement of court decisions

      • Modification proceedings due to changed circumstances

    • Divorces

      • Conducting out-of-court settlement negotiations

      • Divorce agreements

      • Maintenance law (almonies)

      • Division of matrimonial property

      • Pension adjustments

      • Child-related matters

      • Judicial enforcement of claims

      • Judicial defense against unfounded claims

      • Enforcement of court decisions

      • Modification proceedings due to changed circumstances

    • Review of existing contracts and agreements

    • Tax planning (in cooperation with our tax experts)

    • Patient decrees

    • Advance directives

    • Powers of attorney

    • Instructions in the event of death

    • Designation of a preferred legal guardian

    • Contracts on advances on inheritance

    • Gift agreements

    • Loan agreements

    • Partnership agreements

    • Contracts of sale

    • Usufructs and residential rights

    • Transfers of real estate and property

    • Tax planning (in cooperation with our tax experts)

Contract and corporate law

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We support you from the foundation to the succession of your company. Legal questions arise in every stage of a company's development - whether during formation, growth, succession planning or changes in corporate structure and law. Complex frameworks, significant responsibilities and personal interests often intersect. We help you make well-considered decisions, draft effective contracts and develop legally viable solutions.

    • Harmonization with private real estate planning

    • Restrictions on disposal and acquisition rights (pre-emption rights, usufruct)

    • Confidentiality and fiduciary duties

    • Non-competition clauses

    • Contractual penalties

    • Subscription rights

    • Organizational regulations

    • Organization of general meetings

    • Corporate Governance

    • Corporate Housekeeping

    • Compensation and expense regulations

    • Advice for legal entities (companies limited by shares, limited liability companies, partnerships, associations and foundations)

    • Start-ups

    • Companies limited by shares

    • Limited liability companies

    • Partnerships

    • Associations

    • Foundations

    • Reorganizations/Restructurings

    • Establishment of branch offices

    • National and international relocations

    • Changes of domicile

    • Personnel changes

    • Adjustments of business purpose

    • Amendments to articles of association

    • Change in ownership/shareholding structure

    • Company split-ups

    • Management buy-outs (MBOs)

    • Formation of foundations

    • Drafting and amending of foundation deeds and statutes

    • Drafting and amending of regulations (compensation and expense regulations, organizational regulations, etc.)

    • Applying for tax exemption for charitable foundations

    • Advice to the foundation board (responsibilities, duties, meetings)

    • Support in foundation management, including preparation of the annual report for the supervisory authority

    • Conduct of negotiations

    • Review of contracts

    • Contract enforcement (including procedual enforcement of claims)

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