Family and inheritance questions are personal, but they are also property questions: who keeps the home, how savings are split, who inherits a flat in Sofia when half the family lives abroad. We bring both sensitivity and precision to them, and we look for agreed solutions first because they are faster, cheaper and kinder for everyone involved.
Family
- Divorce by mutual consent or contested, with agreements on the home, children and maintenance.
- Children — parental rights, residence and contact arrangements, including where parents live in different countries.
- Maintenance — setting, changing and collecting it.
- Marital property — establishing what is joint, and dividing it after divorce.
Inheritance
- Wills — drafting them so they work, and challenging those that do not respect the law.
- Acceptance or renunciation of an inheritance, including acceptance only up to the value of the estate to protect heirs from inherited debts.
- Reserved shares — the portion of the estate that children, parents and spouses are entitled to whatever the will says.
- Partition of inherited property between heirs, voluntarily or through the court.
- Divorce by mutual consent and contested divorce
- Parental rights and contact arrangements
- Determining and collecting maintenance
- Marital property and its division
- Drafting and challenging wills
- Acceptance and renunciation of inheritance
- Partition of inherited property
Questions clients ask
Who inherits if there is no will?
Children inherit first, in equal shares, and the surviving spouse inherits alongside them with a share equal to that of each child. Without children, the spouse shares the estate with the deceased’s parents or siblings. More distant relatives inherit only if there are no closer heirs.
Can a will leave everything to one person?
Only within limits. Children, the surviving spouse and, where there are no children, parents have a reserved share that a will or lifetime gifts cannot reduce. An heir whose reserved share has been infringed can ask the court to reduce the excessive dispositions.
Can a foreign national inherit property in Bulgaria?
Yes. Foreign heirs can inherit apartments and buildings without restriction. A non-EU heir who inherits agricultural land or forest must, however, transfer it within three years to someone who is legally allowed to own it.
