When to contact a Swedish inheritance lawyer

English transcript

Usually when a foreign lawyer is reaching out to me related to Swedish estate, it is However, a bit late, I would say. But, uh, normally this actually when someone has passed away, it has, it is at that stage.

However, the first it would be more beneficial for everyone if that first contact would actually be a step, a step four, actually, when someone has a Swedish national or someone who has actually assets within Sweden are actually going to the lawyer a first time for to draft a, a will or set up an, a trust. At that point, it would be recommendable to actually reach out for to get advice.

Because when someone has passed away, well, we have the scope is just, it's done. The scope is clear. We have a state, and we just have a will that is going to govern it, and we actually need to handle it.

But if we would actually go and collab- start collaboration before when they actually, uh, will is drafted and, uh, and the trust is, uh, written, then we have like a, a full palette of, um, possibilities and opportunities to actually make, uh, the cross-border estate most beneficial for each beneficiary.