Family Estate
The family estate law group advises individuals and families, entrepreneurs and executives, banking institutions, asset managers, family offices, trustees and charitable foundations in the following areas:
Wealth Structuring and estate planning
- Wealth investment and structuring in a cross-border context
- Inter vivos gifts in a cross-border context
- Inheritance planning upon death
- Determination and/or choice of applicable inheritance law (professio juris)
- Comparative approach of eligible laws
- Advice on the drafting of testamentary dispositions
- Combination of matrimonial contracts, inheritance law and wills
- Dismemberment of the right of ownership in a cross-border context
- Improper usufruct agreements
- Recognition of family debts and loans
Unions (Marriage and Partnerships)
- Choice of matrimonial regime according to family, wealth and geographic context
- Drafting precautions and formal conditions in a cross-border context
- Evolution of the matrimonial regime
- Consistency of marriage contracts and inheritance law
- Non-marital unions (partnership) in a cross-border context
Philanthropy
- Assistance in setting up a philanthropic strategy in a domestic or cross-border context
Residence Transfer – Expatriation and Impatriation
- General wealth audit, warning points detection and recommendations