The Pillon and Napoleoni firm offers their expert advice on all issues concerning succession, inheritance, the death of a person and passage of his/her possessions and goods to legal or testamentary heirs, for which the law requires the heirs to exercise the law and fulfil executory obligations within certain timelines.

Succession by reason of death in Italy is governed mainly by the Civil Code. There are cases of indignity to succession. The inheritance may be accepted, waived or accepted with the benefit of inventory. Special protections are provided for ‘legitimators’, i.e. spouses, legitimate and natural children, and ascendants, who are entitled to a share in the estate even against the express will. It is also possible to constitute ‘legacies’, i.e. obligations that the heirs must fulfil in favour of third parties.

The will may be holographic or drawn up by a public or private notary.

The firm offers qualified assistance in the preparation and storage of holographic wills, as well as the protection of rights for succession disputes already in progress.