Pobic changes with security forces for heirs

The final line for changes in inheritance law is the working group of the Ministry of Justice, with the aim of delivering the new bill in June so that the new provisions can respond to modern social, economic and demographic data that have changed over the passing of about eight decades.

Many arrangements, following a thorough and fruitful scientific dialogue between the members of the Commission, under the Honorary Professor of the Law School of the University of Athens Apostolos Georgiadis, have now locked up and its members – higher judges, academics and notaries.

From the first moment the intention of the political leadership of the Ministry of Justice – Minister George Floridis and Deputy Minister Ioannis Bouga – about the changes in inheritance law, as the relevant sources in the « NEWS », notaries and lawyers have been published by available.

According to the « NEWS » information about the chapter « Testaments », which de facto concerns the most world, it has now clarified the landscape and in the maintenance of the zealous-wisdom, but also in the steps followed until their publication.

1 The special wills are also preserved in the new era of inheritance law.

2 Their deposition will be made to a notary in person by the possessor himself and not through a third party.

3 All the wills will be published by notaries and not by the courts, as is the case, which helps both the deconstruction of justice and the faster completion of the proceedings, so that the heirs can have direct access to all necessary certificates and not even expecting them until they have been in their hands.

For this reason, in the new draft of the Code of Civil Procedure – legislation independent of this inheritance law – which is projected to be passed immediately and entered into force with the new judicial year (September 2025) it is foreseen to create a platform specifically for the electronic publication of the will.

On the platform, which is ready to operate in the face of the reform of inheritance law, the notary will enter and post the notary as soon as it is deposited and it will now be completely safe. With the death of the heir, the platform will give the appropriate code to open the file and the notary can make the publication of the will.

4 As a safety date for the handicrafts, it has been decided to carry out a graphological expertise if the honored persons include « exotic heirs », that is, persons who are not relatives of the disposer.

Of particular weight, however, is the new chapter that the members of the Commission have begun to write, which provides for the first time the introduction of the institution of hereditary contracts in our civil law, as in other European countries.

The predominantly hereditary contract is an agreement of the heir (as long as he is still alive) with his heirs or third parties on who will inherit what.

It is precisely because of the importance of such contracts, it has been unanimously decided to train it and to recall it exclusively by a notarial document to provide all the security guarantees for both the inheritance and the heirs.

« We are processing specific provisions with the corresponding explanatory memorandum, » as the President of the Athens Notary Association, Piraeus, Aegean and Dodecanese Eleni Kontogeorgos tells that each step of the Commission is targeted and fully justified.