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Estate planning

 

Services.

  • Shared liquidation of inheritance

  • Patrimonial aspects of divorce and filiation

  • Judicial administration of property of the person

  • Wills, inheritance agreements, property agreements, mandates and extra-judicial mandates

  • Civil and tax aspects of estate planning

  • Joint ownership, usufruct agreements, and the resolution of conflicts between holders of real rights

  • Family businesses

  • Execution of judicial mandates or conventional mandates

  • Property disputes

  • Gifts and donations (movables and immovable)

 

Janson advises and assists private individuals, as well as wealth managers and private bankers in the field of estate planning and the various challenges related thereto. 

Our lawyers represent clients in disputes regarding the ownership and property dismemberment (exit from joint ownership, disputes between co-owners, conversion of usufruct), succession (national and international inheritance disputes, liquidation and division procedures), liquidation of matrimonial property regimes, and the administration of assets of vulnerable persons. In all these areas, they ensure that they demonstrate the right creativity enabling amicable solutions.

Janson advises its clients in their choice of adequate matrimonial property regime or legal cohabitation and in the drafting of property agreements, wills and inheritance pacts. 

Our lawyers are also involved in the transfer of family businesses, their reorganization, and their liquidation.

Track record.

 

  • Defending the interests of numerous inheritors in the context of family-owned businesses

  • Defending several high net worth individuals in their divorce litigation

  • Litigation in matters of inheritance fraud, inheritance capture, life insurance, reduction/ratio of inheritance

  • Resolution of disputes with the tax authorities in connection with asset-related issues (tax audits in the context of inheritance declarations, donations, etc.).

  • Resolving conflicts between inheritors in the context of complex inheritance involving foreign assets

  • Assistance to Belgian and international banking institutions confronted with the inheritance problems of their clients

  • Assistance to philanthropic organizations

  • Assistance to clients in their relations with auction houses (art market)

  • Implementing strategies with respect to joint-ownership and usufruct

  • Setting up or liquidation of patrimonial corporations

  • Planning of family management structures ("Family Office")

  • Tax organization of movable and real-estate assets of individuals and the tax planning of their fortune