Probate lawyer (attorney, solicitor) in Ukraine
There are situations when the heir for some reason does not succeed in declaring his right to inheritance (to accept the inheritance) within the time allowed by Ukrainian law.
The heritage opens on the day of the death of the testator. From this moment, the period for accepting the inheritance, which is six months, begins to be considered. In order for the heir to be able to obtain an inheritance, he must submit to the notary an application for the adoption of the inheritance.
But it happens that the heir missed the given term for a good reason.
In this case, the heir must apply to the court in Ukraine to establish an additional period sufficient for him to submit an application for acceptance of the inheritance.
Good reasons for missing the deadline for accepting an inheritance in Ukraine are:
- illness of heirs, which lasted a long period of time;
- a large distance between the location of the hereditary property and the permanent residence of the heirs;
- the workload at work; long business trips, including foreign ones;
- urgent service of the heirs in the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
- ignorance of the heirs of the presence of a will and the like.
An important circumstance in order to attribute the reason for missing a term to a valid one is the presence of insurmountable, objective and substantial difficulties, as a result of which the person could not exercise his right to accept the inheritance by the due date.
Such reasons for missing the deadline for filing an application for accepting an inheritance, such as the legal ignorance of the claimant regarding the time and procedure for accepting an inheritance, the person’s lack of information about the presence of inherited property, old age, disability, the court establishing a fact of legal significance for accepting an inheritance (for example, the establishment of the fact of living as one family), the uncertainty between the heirs who will accept the inheritance, the lack of funds to travel to me Stu opening of the inheritance, adverse weather conditions.
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