Inheritance contract
In an inheritance contract (in Germany in § 311b BGB ; there specifically regulated paragraph 5) the legal heirs make agreements on the subsequent estate without the participation of the testator .
In contrast, in an inheritance contract - similar to a will - the testator is involved.
Web links
Wiktionary: Testament - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Brief report on the lecture "The inheritance contract - rare, but sometimes indispensable" at the 2002 ZEV annual conference , accessed on March 19, 2010