From the practice.
What a valuation is, and what it is not
A figure is useful once it is clear what belongs to you: a flat, a car, equipment, a business, a share, stock, or a right in a product. The value is set by a valuer of the required qualification. Dublon organises the…
What is checked on a plot before a deal or an inheritance
A plot is checked before it is bought, accepted as an inheritance, or built on. At the start, the cadastral number or the address is fixed, and so is the decision being prepared: a purchase, an inheritance, building, or…
Debts pass with the inheritance
The estate includes not only rights but also duties that belonged to the decedent when the inheritance opened and did not end at death. That is Article 1218 of the Civil Code of Ukraine. One part cannot be accepted and…
What usually starts a notarial file
The notary draws the list for the particular file. What follows is not an instruction to bring everything. It is what a family is almost always asked, before the file moves. The death certificate. Documents of kinship:…
What the first conversation is for
The first conversation does not open an inheritance file and it is not a legal-services agreement. It is there to see three things: where the inheritance opened, which living relatives have already come forward, and…
General information about Ukrainian inheritance law. It is not advice on a particular estate. An enquiry does not create the comprehensive support agreement, the advocacy-assistance agreement, or a power of attorney.