Helping with the preservation and/or transfer of your assets, with an eye for tax, legal, family and inheritance aspects. Our integrated approach guarantees success. Our integrated approach guarantees success.
Marriage and cohabitation contracts
What are marriage and cohabitation agreements?
Spouses and cohabiting partners can arrange many matters to better protect each other and create legal certainty regarding their assets. How do you deal with children from a previous relationship? What if you build a house on one partner’s land? What if one partner is significantly wealthier than the other? How can the surviving partner obtain financial security without disregarding the children?
Our approach:
Team PRIVATE assists you in drafting a tailor-made marriage or cohabitation agreement.
In practice? Illustrative cases:
CASE
Following a divorce, the jointly owned assets between our client and her ex-partner remained undivided for years. When the ex-partner suddenly passed away, a new complication arose: a substantial portion of the assets risked being wrongfully allocated to the children of the ex-partner, even though our client was still entitled to a share. The situation was further complicated by the fact that the assets had evolved over the years following the divorce, and that the administrative and financial records were often incomplete or outdated.
We took on the challenge of investigating and defending our client’s rights to the jointly owned assets. This required a thorough analysis of all available financial data, property rights, and legal documents, going back many years.
After establishing our client’s entitlements, we initiated negotiations with the children of the ex-partner. Despite the complexity of the situation, we succeeded in reaching a settlement that was satisfactory for all parties. This also avoided the stress and costs of lengthy legal proceedings.
CASE
An ambitious couple, in which one of the partners is financially well-off, approached us with the desire to share financial success with the less affluent partner. They asked us to thoroughly assess their form of cohabitation and to advise them on how to legally structure this intention.
During in-depth discussions with the couple, we explored all possible legal structures, taking both tax and property law aspects into account. Ultimately, we guided the couple in making gifts, drafting a specific marriage contract, and preparing wills.
Schedule a meeting?
Are you facing a similar issue or do you have questions following this case? We’d be glad to assist you – don’t hesitate to get in touch with team PRIVATE: TeamPrivate@Tuerlinckx.eu
“Tax is everywhere”
“Look before you leap”.
A corporate transaction or reorganisation is never an end in itself. We look at the more profound finality and the nature of wealth transfer. Where assets migrate, taxation comes into play.
Advice
Disputes
Are you looking for tax advice based on a firm foundation, written in regular language and which offers a viable solution? Then you have come to the right place at Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers! We supplement classic tax advice with a tax risk analysis to ensure that a structure passes the tax administration or court review. Together, we go for well-founded solutions that meet both short and long-term objectives.
Count on the CORPORATE team for assistance with tax audits and discussions with the tax administration, both at the administrative stage and in court. We ascertain precisely what the tax administration will and will not allow in the specific tax files. We also explore the viability of the tax authority’s claims and the arguments you could use to make a difference in court.
Regularisations
Negotiations
What if some components of your assets have not been subjected to the correct tax regime? You can still realise a rectification within a legally prescribed framework, through tax regularisation. The experts at Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers can analyse how to use this tax technique correctly and guide you through the rest of a case.
Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers are experienced negotiators. Our priority is always the best possible deal for our clients. Whether it concerns contract negotiations, settlements or business transactions, we provide the lasting and most beneficial solution!
Advice
Are you looking for tax advice based on a firm foundation, written in regular language and which offers a viable solution? Then you have come to the right place at Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers! We supplement classic tax advice with a tax risk analysis to ensure that a structure passes the tax administration or court review. Together, we go for well-founded solutions that meet both short and long-term objectives.
Disputes
Count on the CORPORATE team for assistance with tax audits and discussions with the tax administration, both at the administrative stage and in court. We ascertain precisely what the tax administration will and will not allow in the specific tax files. We also explore the viability of the tax authority’s claims and the arguments you could use to make a difference in court.
Regularisations
What if some components of your assets have not been subjected to the correct tax regime? You can still realise a rectification within a legally prescribed framework, through tax regularisation. The experts at Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers can analyse how to use this tax technique correctly and guide you through the rest of a case.
Negotiations
Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers are experienced negotiators. Our priority is always the best possible deal for our clients. Whether it concerns contract negotiations, settlements or business transactions, we provide the lasting and most beneficial solution!
