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Engelberger Law firm and Notary focuses on family law, real estate law and commercial law. Furthermore, we offer all notarial services in the cantons of Lucerne, Nidwalden and Obwalden.

Family Law

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Family Law

Family Law regulates various interpersonal legal relationships.

✓Separation and divorce agreements
✓Divorce and legal separation
✓Protection of the marital union, settlement proceedings
✓Protection of legal personality
✓Allocation of custody, parental responsibility
✓Alimony or maintenance contributions including maintenance collection
✓Matrimonial disputes
✓Splitting of pension fund assets
✓Adoption
✓Paternity suits
✓Amendment of judgements in Family Law
✓Concubinage contracts
✓Prenuptial agreements
✓Mediation
✓Matrimonial property
✓Rainbow families (including advice and representation in relation to family and parental contracts, family planning, sperm donation, stepchild adoption, proceedings before the child protection authority and property contracts)

Inheritance Law & Estate Planning

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Inheritance Law & Estate Planning

Early estate planning ensures that your assets are passed on according to your wishes and avoids disputes among the heirs.

✓Testamentary dispositions, testamentary contracts and agreement as to succession
✓Renunciation of the inheritance
✓Most favoured spouse / partner under Inheritance Law
✓Invalidity of wills
✓Breach of legal share
✓Planning the succession of your company
✓Estate distributions
✓Estate administration
✓Execution of wills
✓Conduction of Inheritance Law proceedings
✓Advice on Tax Law aspects

Notary

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Notary

By law, various transactions require certification by the notary public.

✓Marriage contracts
✓Contracts of inheritance
✓Testamentary contracts, Wills
✓Provision orders (appoint an individual(s) to represent your wishes)
✓Property purchase agreement (notarizations in Lucerne and Nidwalden)
✓Establishment of condominium ownership, co-ownership
✓Usufruct and right of residence
✓Easement contracts (building law, right of way, etc.)
✓Parcelling / Development of Property Law concepts for superstructures
✓Contract of lien
✓Foundation of stock corporations and limited liability companies
✓Partnership agreements
✓Shareholders’ agreements
✓Articles of Association and Organizational Regulations
✓Capital increase and reduction
✓Registered office relocations
✓Liquidations
✓Restructuring (merger, demerger, transformation)
✓Establishment of the foundation
✓Authentications

Learn more → Notary fees Obwalden (PDF, German)Fee schedule for notarial services Fees Lucerne ↗ Fees Nidwalden ↗

Commercial Law

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Commercial Law

We provide leading expert advice across all aspects of Commercial Law.

✓National and international contract law
✓Debt disputes and collection
✓Debt enforcement and bankruptcy law
✓Company Law
✓Business Succession and Advisory Services
✓General terms and conditions of business
✓Joint ventures
✓Labour Law
✓National and international equestrian sport
✓Administrative criminal proceedings
✓External legal services for small and medium-sized enterprises

Construction & Real Estate Law

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Construction & Real Estate Law

In Construction and Real Estate Law different interests often collide with each other.

✓Construction, Planning and Environmental Law
✓Building permit procedures and Administrative Law
✓Complaints or oppositions against a planned building or a construction
✓Service contracts and Architecture contracts
✓General contractor agreements
✓Construction defects
✓Land register, easements, servitudes, condominium ownership
✓Builders’ lien registration
✓Tenancy and Lease Law

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