Will

With a will you can change the legal order of inheritance and decide for yourself who should have a right to your estate when you die. Remember that heirs of the body always have a right to their statutory portion of the estate and that a husband/wife has a right to his/her marital property.

Through a will, a parent can decide that whatever his or her child inherits should be his or her separate property. That property will thus not be part of a settlement in an eventual divorce. It can be beneficial to arrange such provisions to avoid conflicts in the future. Partners who only have children from a previous relationship do not inherit from each other and must therefore prepare a will if they want to inherit from each other.