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Schweizer Kobras acts for executors, administrators and beneficiaries in relation to succession matters where some or all of the estate assets are located outside Australia or where the people involved in the estate reside in different countries. We have extensive experience in advising public trustees and other trustee companies in regard to assets located in countries such as Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and advise on the substantive and procedural law in those jurisdictions.
We assist our clients in the preparation and lodgement of the necessary applications and correspond with foreign courts, overseas banks and share registers, and advise about the validity and effect of Australian grants of probate and letters of administration. We also assist in the collection, sale or transfer of overseas assets.
Schweizer Kobras additionally advises clients with assets in Australia and elsewhere in the world, mostly in Germany, Switzerland or Austria about estate planning and testamentary matters, particularly having regard to the different inheritance and taxation laws affecting estates in those countries.
In the context of our foreign inheritance practice, we typically prepare and review: