Inheritance Disputes & Business Succession

Inheritance is a legal process that almost everyone encounters sooner or later. Probate cases often turn into sharp property conflicts between close relatives when apartments, land plots, businesses, or monetary savings are at stake. Disputes arise due to unfair or falsified wills, missing the legally established deadlines for accepting inheritance, lack of necessary documents, or dishonest behavior of other heirs.

The modern realities of Ukraine have added new specific problems: the death of a testator in temporarily occupied territories, heirs residing abroad, loss or destruction of original title documents for property, and the inability to physically apply to a notary at the place of opening the inheritance. All these circumstances make the standard procedure for registering inheritance rights impossible and require exclusive judicial settlement.

Attorney Yuriy Kozachuk, Ph.D., offers a deep legal approach to resolving any inheritance disputes. We carry out judicial invalidation of wills, protect the right to a mandatory share in the inheritance for disabled family members, and restore missed deadlines for accepting inheritance in court if they were missed for valid reasons. We also help establish legal facts of family relations or cohabitation.

Special attention is paid to probate matters of citizens residing outside Ukraine. We provide remote collection of evidence, restoration of lost title documents through archives and courts, representation before notary bodies, and full turnkey protection of your inheritance without your arrival in Ukraine.

Business Succession

A distinct, highly specialized area of Attorney Yuriy Kozachuk's practice is legal support for business inheritance: corporate rights (shares in LLCs, stocks), commercial assets, production facilities, and enterprise rights. Inheriting an operating business encompasses both succession and corporate law. Heirs frequently encounter hostile resistance from surviving business partners, attempts to dilute the inherited share, refusal of admission to corporate membership, or siphoning of company assets during the probate interim. Attorney Yuriy Kozachuk provides end-to-end legal safeguarding: auditing corporate bylaws and shareholder agreements, securing rightful corporate admission, or litigating for the full fair market value of the inherited corporate share in court.

Each inheritance dispute is analyzed taking into account the latest legal positions of the Supreme Court. We will help you preserve the property belonging to you, restore justice, and register ownership quickly and legally.