Trusts And Estates

trusts-and-estates legal skills for Germany

Germany occupies an unusual position in succession and wealth-transfer work: German private law has no trust in the common-law sense, so practitioners instead reach for the Vor- and Nacherbschaft, the Nießbrauch, and the Stiftung as the structural tools through which clients hold, transfer, and protect assets across generations. That gap between what common-law clients expect and what the BGB actually provides is precisely where careful drafting and structuring advice matters most — and where the trusts and estates legal skills for Germany in the ThomasMore catalog are concentrated.

These agent-ready capabilities cover the drafting and analysis tasks that arise regularly in this area: testing a proposed Familienstiftung structure against German foundation law, screening a cross-border estate for the interaction of EU Succession Regulation (Brussels IV) with German forced-heirship rules under the BGB, or mapping inheritance and gift tax exposure under the Erbschaftsteuergesetz. Each skill runs over MCP or downloads directly, so it slots into the workflow your team already uses rather than requiring a separate platform. The ThomasMore catalog lets you filter by license, author, or sub-topic to find what a specific matter calls for. Whether you are advising a family on generational wealth planning, a foreign trustee holding German situs assets, or an estate undergoing probate before the Nachlassgericht, there is a skill built for the legal question in front of you.