Inheritance, Wills and Estates, Family Law and International Conflict of Laws
LK Partners offers comprehensive and high level advise in all matters of domestic and international succession matters, wills and estates, family law and related matters of international Conflict of Laws. Prof. Dr. Thomas Rauscher is one of the leading specialists in this field. He is one of the most sought-after scholars in the area of both domestic and international succession and family law. He is Professor for International Conflicts of Law, European Private Law and Civil Law at the University of Leipzig. He is also the director of the Institute for foreign and European civil procedures. Professor Rauscher is the author of numerous legal volumes, articles and other publications. Together with the country’s brightest legal minds, Professor Rauscher is a permanent author for the publication “Staudinger”, the most sophisticated legal commentary on the German Civil Code.Our expertise includes:
- marriage contracts, high-level divorces, amicable divorce agreements, separation of marriage estates
- alimony
- child custody and parentage
- customized wills and estates
- disinheritance and asset protection against objectionable attempts of access
- Integrated succession solutions for estates and enterprises
- regulation between heirs
- challenge of wills and the enforcement of claims against an estate in court
- challenge of discriminatory donations and other measures to evade legitimate heirs
- matters in connection with foreign inheritance laws and the relevant rules on conflicts of law
- trusts and special situation structures.