Heir search for institutions and private clients

Especially in the Berlin environs and the entire "new" federal states, cooperation with legal representatives and districts is one of our focal points. There are still tens of thousands of unresolved ownership issues regarding land. We can refer to a great deal of experience and knowledge in this area and look forward to hearing from you.

Usually, probate courts or the legal guardians working there appoint a guardian ad litem who has to take over the search for heirs. However, as a guardian ad litem, you are also welcome to contact us directly - for whatever reason - regarding the search for heirs.

We are also available to you as a contact partner for follow-up investigations in inheritance certificate proceedings. Even though we are not allowed to represent applicants in inheritance certificate proceedings - in case of inquiries and dispositions regarding such applications in which we are already named as contact persons, we are often the most direct and fastest way to obtain further evidence.

Notaries regularly encounter in their practice the need for the professional assistance of an heir's mediator.

This may be the case, for example, if no partial certificate of inheritance can be applied for for the heirs who have presented themselves at the notary's office without identifying all the heirs. This is because a share can only be calculated for the heirs mentioned in the application for a certificate of inheritance if all the trunks entitled to inherit are known.

In other cases, it is necessary to identify all heirs, so that the already known persons entitled to inherit a property can ultimately sell it.

Finally, notaries also reach their limits when it comes to security mortgages, purchase rights or rights of first refusal that are to be deleted from the land register before a property sale. Particularly in the case of older entries, this is often only possible if a search for heirs takes place with the aim of finding contact persons who are alive today.

It should be noted that notaries never appoint a heirs' mediator themselves, but recommend that heirs contact us or other professional heirs' mediators if necessary.

Recently, there has been movement, particularly at the political level, in the area of dealing with dormant accounts or orphan assets. However, it will be some time before the corresponding draft law is implemented and a central register is actually introduced.

We are already helping you to assign the assets to the entitled persons - regardless of whether the claimants themselves or their heirs need to be identified.

It is not uncommon that larger, yet incomplete communities of heirs wish to sell their real estate. However, a sale of real estate is only possible "out of the whole hand". The prerequisite for this is a comprehensive clarification of the succession. Here we can either support you in finding and legitimizing the missing heirs or work with you to find alternative solutions. Please contact us.

In the course of the development of renewable energies you would like to acquire real estate, but you do not know the owners? Even the land register shows only untraceable or even deceased persons? We have the necessary experience to support you in the search for heirs.