Practice areas
Inheritance & Estate Planning in Croatia
If you own property in Croatia, Croatian inheritance law applies to it - regardless of where you live or what your own country's rules say. For international families, that often means dealing with two legal systems at once, navigating a Croatian probate process that feels unfamiliar, and sometimes discovering that the ownership situation is more complicated than expected.
We advise and represent heirs, testators, and other interested parties across all aspects of Croatian inheritance law. For international clients, that frequently means working within the framework of the EU Succession Regulation (EU 650/2012). Co-ownership situations - where multiple people inherit a property and hold it jointly - are a particular area of experience.
This typically involves:
- Drafting wills and testaments
- Estate planning and ownership structuring
- Representation in Croatian probate proceedings
- EU Succession Regulation advice (cross-border estates)
- European Certificate of Succession
- Division and transfer of estate assets
- Transfer and relinquishment of inheritance shares
- Dissolution of co-ownership (suvlasnička zajednica)
- Disputed inheritance litigation
- Claims for statutory shares and challenges to testaments