Keeping a will

Submit an informal application for the official safekeeping of your will at the district court.

The acceptance for safekeeping of the respective disposition upon death is ordered by the registrar of the district court and carried out jointly by him and the clerk of the registry. The custody takes place under joint seclusion of the registrar and the registrar of the registry. The court is obliged to have your will or inheritance contract recorded in the Central Register of Wills at the Federal Chamber of Notaries.

Please contact the probate court at the district court.

It is a disposition of property upon death (will).

• Birth certificate
• Application for deposit of a will

Fees are payable for special official custody and the opening of dispositions upon death.

None.

• §§ 2248, 2259 German Civil Code (BGB),
• §§ 346 - 351 Family Procedure Act (FamFG),
• § 34 Beurkundungsgesetz (BeurkG).

Contracts of inheritance may also be placed in special official custody or kept with the notary.

• Brochure "Erben und Verbequebe" of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection

04.08.2020