Trust & Estates Law Boutique

If you seek to retain first rate legal service on the fields of Trusts & Estates, Private Foundations and General Business Law you hit the right site.

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Mission Statement

High Attention

Personal attention, availability and continuity of entrusted personnel are key-principles to devote your case that degree of attentiveness required for successful representation.

High Speed

Time matters in order to handle a case most efficiently. This principle enjoys first priority.

High Quality

Focus on selected Areas of practice facilitates competence and diligence at the highest possible level. Economic restraints shall not be decisive in all circumstances. If justice is called for, it shall be done.

Areas of Practice

Trusts & estates, probates, succession law matters, international estates and estate planning, elderly law

My practice focuses on probate and administration procedures of decedents’ estates and inheritance law. I represent domestic and international clients to realize their claims (out of an heirship, forced heirship, legacy, bequeath or a creditor position) in estate cases, most of them litigated. I also assist in instigating ancillary probate procedures to grab on assets placed in Austria. I gained a lot of professional experience as a licensed substitute of a notary public and am therefore well linked to a number of notaries engaged as court commissioners in pertinent procedures.

Private foundations

The private foundation in Austrian has proved oneself to serve as a practical mean to ensure stable and sustainable management of family businesses and firm holdings. This vehicle can be designed to serve both private (e.g. family maintenance) and charitable objectives.

Debt collection

I cooperate with Progress West which is a leading Austrian debt collection agency (www.progresswest.at). Let my seasoned and well-rehearsed team take care of your receivables on economically reasonable terms.

News & Events

OGH 20. 2. 2024 +++ No Forfeiture of Inheritance Rights due to Unworthiness for Property Crime against Estate

Tue 20.02.2024, 00:40

International Jurisdiction on Section 14 WEG and the European Succession Regulation – Comments on the Court Ruling OGH 14. 3. 2023, 5 Ob 209/22d

Fri 10.03.2023, 00:38

NZ 2023, 338

Gain of time to collect the enforced heirship claim

Tue 01.03.2022, 00:18

Die Presse, 1. 3. 2022

Inheritance of residential building - a poverty trap?

Tue 08.02.2022, 00:20

Die Presse, 8. 2. 2022

Donations evading forced heirship: Supreme Court reshuffles inheritance case law

Thu 23.09.2021, 11:32

Die Presse, 20. 09. 2021

JusProfi Podcast – Episode 14: Inheritance Law with T&E lawyer Dr. Alexander Hofmann, LL.M.

Mon 12.07.2021, 12:00

1st Austrian Conference on Trust and Estates

Thu 28.11.2024

Judicial limits for estate planning in view of forced heirship claims

Litigation tactics in trust and estate matters

Mon 14.10.2024

ARS - Academy