Swedish legal services
Receiving an inheritance in Sweden can involve more than proving entitlement. Banks, property records, foreign certificates, tax questions, and estate representatives may each require different documentation.
The first conversation is free for up to 30 minutes and available by phone, video, or in person. No documents are required before the call. Consultations are subject to an initial matter and conflict review. Contacting the firm does not create a lawyer-client relationship.
Find your starting point
Choose the practical goal. Authority and ownership usually need to be clear before a transfer, sale, or distribution can be completed.
A useful starting point
Identify the registered owner, estate status, intended future owner, and whether the bouppteckning is registered before preparing the ownership or distribution step.
General orientation only. The actual route depends on the documents, people, institutions, assets, and jurisdictions involved.
A useful starting point
Separate authority to sell from the later distribution of proceeds. Clarify who represents the estate and which property, broker, valuation, and co-owner information already exists.
General orientation only. The actual route depends on the documents, people, institutions, assets, and jurisdictions involved.
A useful starting point
Start with the property identification, available ownership record, deceased owner, estate parties, and the different outcomes being considered by the heirs.
General orientation only. The actual route depends on the documents, people, institutions, assets, and jurisdictions involved.
Typical Swedish issues
General process
Talk through the Swedish connection. No documents are required; knowing whether the estate includes bank assets, property or a cooperative apartment, or both is enough to begin.
Simon reviews fit, conflicts, and the expected Swedish work, then sends an engagement agreement for signature and a price or fee structure for review.
After engagement, Simon requests the relevant information and carries out the agreed Swedish work with banks, authorities, estate parties, and advisers.
No documents are required. Be ready to explain in general terms how Sweden is involved and whether the estate includes Swedish bank assets, property or a cooperative apartment, or both. Simon will identify which documents are needed after the matter has been reviewed.
Do not send account numbers, identity documents, or confidential records through a general website form.
Pricing is provided after Simon has reviewed the matter and understood the scope. The assets, institutions, documents, heirs, coordination, and amount of work can affect both price and timing.
A Swedish estate-inventory meeting should normally take place within three months after death, and the estate inventory should normally be filed with the Swedish Tax Agency within one month after the meeting. Exceptions and extensions may apply; do not calculate an individual deadline from this page.
Continue with the right question
Use a focused guide to understand the terminology and prepare a better first conversation.
U.S. location paths
The firm assists with Swedish-law questions from Stockholm. These pages provide relevant regional situations and meeting context without claiming a U.S. office or U.S. bar admission.
New York
Coordinate the Swedish work with New York-based counsel, accountants, estate representatives, and family members across the Atlantic.
Explore the New York guideCalifornia
Plan remote documents, signatures, and adviser handoffs carefully across the nine-hour West Coast–Sweden time difference.
Explore the California guideFlorida
Separate Swedish assets and documents from Florida retirement, probate, and estate-planning questions involving international families.
Explore the Florida guideTexas
Define the Swedish legal role clearly while Texas counsel, financial advisers, banks, and family decision-makers handle their own workstreams.
Explore the Texas guideWashington
Use a remote-first document plan for Pacific Northwest families coordinating Swedish banks, heirs, property, and advisers.
Explore the Washington guideService FAQ
Living abroad does not by itself answer the inheritance, authority, registration, or distribution questions. The estate and property documents must be mapped for the specific asset.
That depends on who may represent the estate, the estate parties, the property, any disagreements, and the documents required for the transaction.
No. Swedish property and estate work may need to be coordinated with separately retained U.S. tax advisers. The website does not provide U.S. tax advice.
Yes. Begin with a free 30-minute conversation. No documents are required before the call; it is enough to explain the Swedish connection and whether bank assets, property or a cooperative apartment, or both are involved. Simon will identify any documents needed after the matter is reviewed.
A Swedish estate with a U.S. connection?
No documents are needed before the first call.