Inheritance Law is a branch of the Civil Law that regulates the devolution of properties, claims and debts on an heir or heirs upon the death of the owner. Most of the legal transactions concerning inheritance law can occur during the inheritor's lifetime. Examples of these are inheritance agreements, disclaimer of inheritance, drafting of testament, revocation of testament.
Drafting Last Will and Testament
A Testament is a document in which a person arranges how his/her inheritance will be allocated while he/she is alive. Turkish Civil Code defines that there are three types of wills: "Notarial Testament", "Oral Testament" and "Handwritten Testament". A handwritten testament is a will prepared by a person in his/her own handwriting by complying with certain conditions mentioned in The Code such as date and signature. However, due to absence of official protection, these testaments may be damaged or destroyed. This may result to various losses of claims or properties. Oral testament can only be executed in force majeure such as imminent danger of death, disconnection of transportation, illness, war, etc. where the inheritor is unable to make notarial or handwritten testament. Therefore, this type of testament cannot be always used; it is an extraordinary form of testament.
Official testaments are wills prepared or approved before a notary. It is important that the provisions of these testaments comply with due form. At this point, it is necessary to obtain a professional legal service during the preparation and notarization procedures of the testament.
Inheritance Collusion
Inheritance collusion is a commonly encountered situation in practice. This is a circumstance in which one or more heirs evade property from the other heir or heirs. As a consequence, an unfair allocation and various loses of financial and moral rights may occur. If you faced any situation as such, you could claim your rights by filing a litigation with a professional lawyer.
Our firm provides legal services in this field in order to reveal and to ensure the rights of our clients arising from inheritance law. Our work in this field also includes preventive legal services to resolve disputes before they occur.
We provide the following services to our clients:
Inheritance determination and counseling
Tracking of litigations related to inheritance law
Obtaining a certificate of inheritance
Inheritance contracts
Inheritance partnership procedures, disclaimers of inheritance, disinheritance procedures
Preparation of testaments and other dispositions and notarization procedures
Detections of inheritance, equalization, and abatement
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