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Sannerl wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2024 6:35 pm there's also "Vollmacht über den Tod hinaus" which makes sense for couples especially but is not restricted to them.

Yes the aunt has this for Oma's estate, but my wife thinks she has also been made "zweite Kontoinhaber" for the account which was destined for my wife's mum.

Death/inheritance taxes have long been a literal disaster for families with grand estates because you can easily end up owing more than your liquid assets cover.

This is how the National Trust came to own all those stately homes. Some with sitting family "grand family" tenants.

German export industry knows no limits... Mind you I once met a bloke who sold sand to Saudi Arabia

I read in the English press that Die Linke are promising cheap kebabs

Eldest was mega grumpy about leaving the house to climb a hill. Then bounded up the hill.

Thanks all but one thing, the aunt isn't a lawyer. I don't know where that came from. Don't think it changes the advice though!

Now that is cynical! There is a will and it says that anything that is not set out in the will gets divided four ways. Being charitable, the aunt may be thinking that the gift goes back into the rest of the estate to be divided up when it is refused - but that is not what the court has said. The thi...

My wife's mum has been estranged from her family for a long time, and her mum (i.e. my wife's grandmother) recently died leaving roughly equal amounts to her two daughters (contents of one named bank accounts each), and smaller amounts to her two grandaughters (my wife and her cousin). Due to the es...