Estate Engineering, Complex Successions & Exit from Joint Ownership
Resolving complex estates and deadlocked joint ownership
This practice handles family estates presenting legal, land-related or relational complexity: unliquidated inherited joint ownership; land titles registered, in the course of registration or unregistered; property in an unregularised state; or assets dispersed among heirs across several generations. The work combines documentary investigation, independent valuation and mediation between the parties, in order to reach a legally sound amicable partition protocol.
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Documentary Investigation & Reconstruction of Inheritance Rights
Locating certificates of heirship, tracing international claimants, verifying adoular and judicial deeds.
- 01 Extensive research within notarial, judicial, cadastral and Land Registry archives.
- 02 Historical reconstruction of chains of title and deeds of ownership across several generations.
- 03 Identification and tracing of all rightful claimants, including heirs residing abroad.
- 04 Verification of the formal validity of adoular certificates of heirship, partition confirmation judgments and civil status booklets.
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Succession Mediation & Protocols for Exiting Joint Ownership
Conciliation between heirs, calculation of balancing payments, amicable partition protocols, conduct of court proceedings through our lawyers.
- 01 Convening conciliation meetings between heirs or co-owners in disagreement.
- 02 Precise, adversarial calculation of inheritance shares, joint-ownership charges and balancing payments.
- 03 Legal structuring of settlement agreements — partition in kind, gift-partitions and property exchanges.
- 04 Conduct, through our lawyers, of judicial partition actions and licitation proceedings where matters are deadlocked.
- 05 Drafting of rectifying deeds to resolve historical errors of designation or measured area.
- 06 Coordination and diligent liaison with notaries, adouls and the Conservators of Land Registry.
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Legal Inventory, Survey & Independent Valuation of Assets
Exhaustive survey of the estate (buildings, land, securities), independent adversarial valuation report, monitoring for clients abroad.
- 01 Exhaustive survey of the assets of the estate or joint ownership: buildings, land, business goodwill, securities and intangible rights.
- 02 Determination of market, rental or utility value according to recognised professional standards and methods.
- 03 Preparation of an adversarial valuation report providing an objective and incontestable basis for the partition.
- 04 Valuation, management and monitoring of assets located in Morocco on behalf of clients abroad, with detailed status reports.