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This site is under construction as of December 2019.

The following is a list of topics that you will encounter when dealing with inheritances in Germany:

A

  • Adoption (inheritance rights of adopted persons)

The adoption of minors establishes a full statutory inheritance right of the adopted person with regard to the adoptive parents and their relatives. The adopted person is no longer an intestate heir of the birth parents.

Persons adopted as adults have full inheritance rights regarding both their adoptive parents and their birth parents.

  • Administrative probate

B

  • Bank accounts
  • Beneficiaries of an estate
  • Bequests

C

  • Claims against an estate
  • Court proceedings

D

  • Death certificate
  • Designated beneficiary of a bank account
  • Double-taxation treaty

E

  • Estate
  • Estate tax in Germany
  • Estate tax in the United States on inheritances from Germany
  • Executor

F

G

H

  • Heirs

I

  • Inheritance taxes in Germany
  • Intestate succession rules
  • Information requests

J

  • Judicial probate

K

L

  • Last Will and Testament
  • Legacies

N

  • Notary

O

P

  • Probate

R

  • Real estate
  • Rights of legatees

S

T

  • Taxes
  • Tax treaties
  • Testament

U

V

W

  • Will

Z