In this way, heirs can convert savings contributions for children into a one-off payment

With bequests, deceased survivors can commit themselves to certain benefits, for example towards their children. In the family of one reader, the mother of the heirs had decreed in the will that they should pay regular contributions to a private pension scheme for their children. The reader wants to know whether this obligation can also be converted into a one-off payment to his children. Claus-Henrik Horn, specialist lawyer for inheritance law, explains what heirs should look out for in such cases.