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Dr. jur. Bettina Luft gen. Plaisier

Lawyer
Specialist lawyer for Family law
Specialist lawyer for Inheritance law


Koblenz
Janine Leyendecker
0261 - 404 99 - 82
0261 - 404 99 - 785


Expertise

Divorce, separation and divorce settlement agreement, prenuptial agreements, alimony, custody and visitation rights, compulsory portion of an estate, will drafting, will execution

Additional qualifications
Certified executor (AGT) [Arbeitsgemeinschaft Testamentsvollstreckung und Vermögenssorge e.V.]

Memberships
Member of the Family and Inheritance Law Working Group at the DAV

Member of the Koblenz Bar Association

Further training
The rights of heirs before inheritance (10/2025)
 
  • Special features of proceedings and litigation in inheritance disputes
  • Current supreme court rulings in inheritance disputes
  • Current supreme court and high court rulings on inheritance law


19th German Inheritance Law Day (10/2025)

Schwetzinger Family Law Days (09/2025)
 
  • Current case law of the Federal Court of Justice in family law
  • Long-standing issues in child custody law
  • Divorces with international implications
  • Company valuation in family law
  • Cost of Legal Services Amendment Act 2025
  • Structuring the protection of spouses' assets
  • Proportional liability in judgment law
  • Matrimonial property agreements


Schwetzingen Inheritance Days (09/2025)
 
  • Indirect third-party compensation in inheritance law
  • Structural advice: reducing and avoiding compulsory portion claims
  • Tax optimization of wills
  • Current case law of the Federal Court of Justice and the higher courts on inheritance law
  • Inheritance in a community of accrued gains
  • Liability pitfalls in inheritance law advice 
  • Cross-border inheritance cases
  • Settlement in probate proceedings 


Recent case law of the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz in family matters (09/2025)

18th German Executors' Day (11/2024)

Schwetzinger Family Law Days (11/2024)
  with the topics:
  • Current case law of the Federal Court of Justice in family law
  • Child custody matters currently
  • Total revision of the VA after the death of the person entitled to compensation
  • Reform of the law of maintenance
  • International family law and current legislative proposals
  • Tax issues in family law
  • Settlement issues in family law mandates
  • Current developments in parent and child law


Schwetzingen Inheritance Days (09/2024)
  with the topics:
  • Death in the social security system
  • Art and vacation home in the estate
  • Optimal tax planning in inheritance law
  • Current case law of the Federal Court of Justice in inheritance matters
  • Interpretation and contestation of testamentary dispositions
  • Opportunities and risks in succession advice under family law
  • Power of attorney and agency relationship in inheritance law
  • Costs in probate proceedings


Cash flow and company valuation for family law (08/2024)

Current case law on family law - Higher Regional Court of Koblenz (11/2023)

Schwetzinger Family Law Days (09/2023)

17th German Inheritance Law Day (03/2023)

Schwetzinger Family Law Days (10/2022)
  with the topics:
  • developments in procedural law in family matters in the FG
  • Pitfalls of the new Brussels IIb Regulation from August 2022
  • Financial reorganization after separation
  • Current news from the Federal Court of Justice on spousal maintenance
  • Childcare arrangements and the alternating custody model from a psychological perspective


Schwetzingen Inheritance Days (09/2022)
  with the topics:
  • life insurance and savings account in the event of inheritance
  • (Necessary) corrections after the inheritance
  • Key dates in inheritance law
  • Current case law of the Federal Court of Justice in inheritance matters
  • Power of attorney and inheritance law
  • Criminal aspects of inheritance cases
  • Inheritance – a means of organizing and the risk of liability
  • Cross-border inheritance matters – principles and developments


Current case law on family law - Higher Regional Court of Koblenz (11/2021)

Schwetzinger Family Law Days (09/2021)

The blended family in the event of inheritance with the relevant family law issues (09/2021)

Schwetzingen Inheritance Days (09/2021)

8th AGT symposium (04/2021)

14th German Day of the Executor of the Last Will and Testament (11/2020)
 
  • News from the world of commercial execution
  • Tax law: Cardinal tax errors in the execution of wills
  • European country report: inheritance law and execution of wills in France
  • Specialized execution of wills


Schwetzinger Family Law Days (10/2020)
 
  • Divorce petition and inheritance law
  • Cross-border child custody matters
  • Amounts in dispute and legal aid costs in family matters
  • Valuation of a company in family law
  • Strategies in the equalization of gains procedure
  • Sources of error in pension rights adjustment – practical examples
  • Current developments in rights of access
  • Current case law in family law


Schwetzingen Inheritance Days (09/2020)
  with the topics:
  • questions of design of anticipated succession
  • Revocation of a will due to gross ingratitude
  • Investigating unknown heirs
  • Nottestamente in international comparison
  • Minor heirs in commercial and corporate law
  • Current issues for communities of heirs
  • Secure compulsory portion of early succession
  • Current case law of the Federal Court of Justice and the higher courts in inheritance matters


12th Annual Conference on Inheritance Law (08/2020)
 
  • Current developments and case law on inheritance law
  • Current case from legal practice
  • The latest on lifetime and testamentary transfers in succession planning – private assets
  • The latest on lifetime and testamentary transfers in succession planning – international assets
  • Disclosure requirements for cross-border inheritance tax planning – special topic
  • Current developments in lifetime and testamentary transfers in succession planning – business assets
  • Current developments and case law on inheritance tax law


Update on the execution of the will (08/2020)

all entries Interfaces in family and inheritance law (05/2020)

3rd AGT Special Conference on the topic of "The Disabled Person's Testament" (02/2020)

Current case law on family law (11/2019)

Schwetzinger Family Law Days (10/2019)
  with the topics:
  • amounts in dispute and legal aid in family matters, also for employees
  • Practical pension rights adjustment
  • Current case law in family law
  • International family law in legal practice
  • Care models from a psychological perspective
  • Current maintenance law in practice


Execution of wills currently in Frankfurt in 2018 (11/2018)

Schwetzinger Family Law Days (10/2018)
  with the topics:

  • Current problems of pension rights adjustment
  • amounts in dispute and legal aid costs in family-related
  • asset disputes in family law outside of matrimonial property law
  • Current case law in family law
  • The "correct" joint will
  • auction in family and inheritance law
  • Current maintenance law in practice


Schwetzingen Inheritance Days (09/2018)
  with the topics
  • First experiences and decisions on the EU Inheritance Regulation
  • Division of the estate by apportionment
  • Pre-emptors with an equalization obligation - §§ 2050 ff BGB
  • Current case law of the Federal Court of Justice and the higher courts in inheritance matters
  • The latest on inheritance and gift tax law in private estates
  • The minor in inheritance law
  • Interfaces between inheritance law and social law


13th German Inheritance Law Day (03/2018)

11th German Executors' Day (AGT) (11/2017)
  with the topics
  • Gladly overlooked: the executor and public law, dealing with inherited liabilities, building land, commercial and trade law, burial law, etc.
  • Tax law: The coordinated decree of the federal states of June 22, 2017, on inheritance tax reform in practice
  • European country report: inheritance law and execution of wills in Austria
  • (Also) a report on the experience of settling the estate of a family business


Schwetzinger Family Law Days (10/2017)
  with the events
  • The cut-off date in the accrual
  • IPR in legal practice
  • Current case law in family law
  • Marriage for all
  • Parental support in the Federal Court of Justice case law
  • Fine-tuning family law
  • Current maintenance law in practice
  • Pension rights adjustment in the case law of the Federal Court of Justice


Schwetzingen Inheritance Days (09/2017)
  with the events
  • costs in the inheritance proceedings
  • Design through legacy
  • The settlement in inheritance law
  • Digital inheritance
  • Foreign real estate in the estate
  • Reclaiming gifts from social assistance providers
  • Main areas of inheritance law
  • Current rulings of the Federal Court of Justice and the higher regional courts in matters of inheritance


Schwetzinger Family Law Days (10/2016)

Schwetzingen Inheritance Days (09/2016)
  with the events:
  • The challenge in inheritance law
  • Current developments in the reduction of compulsory portion claims
  • Current case law on inheritance law
  • Fee agreements in IT and inheritance law
  • Succession planning in blended families
  • Execution of wills in practice
  • The European Succession Regulation in practice
  • Probate proceedings and the European Certificate of Succession


Execution of wills currently in 2015 (11/2015)

Schwetzinger Family Law Days (10/2015)
  with the individual topics
  • Pension rights adjustment – the opportunities and risks of counseling
  • trials and tribulations – content control of prenuptial agreements
  • Current case law in family law
  • Equalization of accrued gains and asset disputes
  • Latest case law on pension rights adjustment
  • Current inheritance law with family law implications
  • Parental custody and the associated procedural law
  • Current maintenance law in practice


Schwetzingen Inheritance Days (09/2015)
  with the individual topics:
  • Supreme Court inventories
  • Legitimacy in relation to banks
  • The entrepreneur's will
  • Agreement on legal fees in inheritance law
  • Tax planning for inheritance and gifts of private assets
  • Developments for the reduction of compulsory portion claims
  • Strategies for auctioning off property
  • The real estate and death – no frictional losses in the event of inheritance


Recent case law of the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz in family matters (11/2014)

Prenuptial and post-divorce agreements, inheritance and family law agreements (03/2014)

Certified executor (AGT) (02/2014)

16th Annual Family Law Conference (04/2013)

Key topics in the FamFG – interim legal protection – where family law meets tenancy law. (11/2012)

Maintenance income, in particular of self-employed and tradespeople (10/2012)

German Probate Conference (02/2012)

Current case law on maintenance, accrued gains and pension rights adjustment (11/2011)

Current case law of the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz on family law (01/2011)

Lecturing activities
Interfaces with family law

Current developments in custody rights

Languages
English

French

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