{"product_id":"vragen-51966-mijn-zusje-en-zwager-zijn-enkele-jaren-geleden-gescheiden-de-schulden-zijn-opgenomen-in-het-scheidi","title":"Legal assistance with inheritance and debts","description":"\u003ch4\u003e Questioner\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n My sister and brother-in-law divorced a few years ago. The debts are included in the divorce agreement. The only son continued to live with his father. Father has now died quite suddenly. Son is 22 years old and sole heir but has no idea how many debts have been incurred in the meantime. The administration is a mess. Son is still in school but must now leave the house. Now I have advised him as an aunt to go to a notary for a deed to accept the inheritance under benefit of inventory or to reject the inheritance. Who should then inform the housing association that the main resident has died. I do not want him, as a 22 year old student, to have to pay for his father's debts.\n\n\u003ch4\u003e Lawyer\u003c\/h4\u003e \nYour advice is sensible. If your nephew does not have an overview, there may be all kinds of debts unknown to him. And if you were to accept the inheritance, you would also be liable for the debts. Beneficiary acceptance protects you against this. But with this beneficiary acceptance, you do have the obligation to settle the estate properly. If your nephew rejects the inheritance, he also has nothing to do with the settlement. But then the other family members come into the picture as potential heirs: father, mother, brothers, sisters (of your brother-in-law). They must then also reject or possibly accept beneficiarily.\n\n Of course, there may be assets in addition to debts. Perhaps a life insurance policy will be released. So: before rejecting, your cousin should inform himself as well as possible. Especially with such an insurance, it is important to look carefully at who the beneficiary is.\n \nFor rejection or beneficiary acceptance, you do not need to go to the notary. This can be done at the registry of the court (the court of your brother's last place of residence). It does cost around 120 euros. If it all looks very sad but your nephew does not want to miss out completely if the estate turns out to be valuable after all and he does not feel like doing the work that the settlement of the estate entails, I can think of something else - a kind of interim solution.\n\n As for the rent: just call the landlord. You are not an heir but you can inform the landlord.\n\n","brand":"Rechtswinkel.nl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55006206001501,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.rechtswinkel.nl\/en\/products\/vragen-51966-mijn-zusje-en-zwager-zijn-enkele-jaren-geleden-gescheiden-de-schulden-zijn-opgenomen-in-het-scheidi","provider":"Rechtswinkel.nl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}