Under German law, descendants, spouses and (if there are no descendants) parents are entitled to a mandatory minimum share (“Pflichtteil”), even if the testator disinherits (“enterbt”) them by will (“Testament”), mutual will (“gemeinschaftliches Testament”) or testamentary contract (“Erbvertrag”). The mandatory minimum share is half of what these close family members would receive based on the statutory rules of intestate succession, if there had been no will.