Civil law and succession planning
Inheritances, successions and family wealth decisions are frequently the moment when latent conflicts surface. What appears to be a disagreement about the division of assets is, at its core, a conversation about recognition, perceived fairness, and years of accumulated family history.
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The best succession is the one that is thought through, structured and communicated during your lifetime — not improvised when it is too late.
Wills and lifetime planning
Drafting wills tailored to the testator's financial and family circumstances, including clauses for spousal protection, specific bequests, appointment of executors and provision for incapacity.
Inheritances and estate administration
Advice on acceptance of inheritance, estate inventory and partition, asset valuation, allocation and inheritance tax. Resolution of deadlocks between co-heirs.
Intergenerational estate structuring
Gifts, succession agreements, family holding companies and wealth transfer vehicles with integrated tax and legal planning.
Cross-border successions
Successions with a cross-border element (EU Succession Regulation, double taxation, coordination between jurisdictions), with particular experience in the Spain–US axis. For complex international matters, we integrate our cross-border advisory practice.
Succession mediation
When the conflict already exists, mediation provides a space where heirs can seek agreement without destroying the family relationship. Succession disputes have a legal layer and an emotional layer — at Alta Mediación we address both.
Do you recognise yourself?
If any of these situations describe your current challenge, we can help.
- A family member has died and the heirs cannot agree on the distribution, the valuation of assets, or the interpretation of the will.
- You want to plan your succession during your lifetime — will, gifts, succession agreements — and need a plan that is legally sound and family-viable.
- There is a dispute between siblings or family branches over an inheritance, and litigation appears to be the only way out.
- You need to wind up a joint estate or partition an inheritance and the co-heirs are not cooperating.
- The family estate includes assets in multiple jurisdictions and the succession has an international dimension.
- You need to settle a matrimonial property regime in the context of a separation or divorce involving a complex estate.
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