To avoid long waiting, fix an appointment via phone to your case. Bring your ID card and address card and the articles of association of the new firm. The fee for the specimen signature is 1500 HUF per pieces.

My mother is over eighty, she had an operation, she hardly can see, she would like to make a testament. What is required to make a testament?

If your mother is in a condition in which she is unable to read, she can make a valid testament only with the presence of the notary. The presence of two witnesses are also required. If the conditions of the testator requires, the notary may draw up the testament on the spot (in hospital, in a flat). The ID card and the address card of the testator will be required.

My friend borrowed me a sum of money but I could not pay it back in time. We agreed a new deadline, but my friend demands a notarial record about it. What to do?

First of all, fix an appointment with the notary’s office, in which you can have a personal talk with the notary, and the notary can take the data required to the deed and outline the possible ways of solving the problem. In this talk you can agree with the notary on the time when the deed demanded by your friend can be drawn up.

Our father has deceased, me and my brother are the heirs. But my brother resides abroad, and due to the expenses he would not like to come to the inheritance proceedings. The final completion of the inheritance would be very urgent for me,  what could I do for that?

The appeal an interested party from abroad and the delivery of the decision may take several months, which may lead to dragging of the inheritance proceedings indeed. You can save the time loss due to the delivery, if your brother trust you as his coheir or an advocate in Hungary to represent him in the proceedings. The signature of your brother on the authorization made abroad must be acknowledged by the Hungarian legation or a local notary. As soon as the acknowledged authorization has arrived, send it to the notary’s office, in order to we appoint the inheritance proceeding.

My father deceased, his burial took place yesterday. What to do in connection with his inheritance?

The official for inventory of the mayor’s office in the district will appeal the heirs to ask data. The mayor’s office will record the personal data of your father (as the deceased) and the possible heirs, the possible testament and the data of the chattel and real property owned by the deceased, and the possible debts of the deceased. The evaluation of the real estates will be made also by the mayor’s office. Having all these completed, they send the records to the authorized notary. The notary appeals the interested to the inheritance proceedings.

The inheritance proceedings of my mother has been finished for two years. Now we found a savings-book to my mother’s name. I went to the bank but they do not want to pay me the amount in that savings-book, though I presented them the inheritance decision which proved that I was the only heir. How can I get my money?

My son will marry next month. Years ago we purchased him an own flat and furnished it. We love our future daughter-in-law very much. We are afraid what if the marriage comes apart and my son loses what we gave him with a serious sacrifice. We have retired, we cannot support him again. What to do?

The conjugal property begins with the marriage. All what they have obtained before the marriage is their separate goods. After divorce the parties have no right to demand each other’s separate goods. Still we recommend that the parties should make a statement before the marriage which are those goods what will be “taken into the marriage” by the husband and the wife as their separate goods. Before the marriage it may be agreed how the use of the flat would be in case of divorce.

The inheritance of my father was proceeded by the notary of the district. Now I have to make a notarial statement. Shall I turn to him also in this case?

For cases of inheritance a case may be conducted by only one notary. In other notarial cases (for instance drawing up deeds, acknowledging) you may choose any notary in the country. If it is required to be the notary present on the scene (for example documents must be drawn up in the flat of a handicapped client), you may choose only from the notaries working in the given region. If the flat is in Budapest, you may choose any notary in Budapest; if the flat is in Szombathely, you may choose from the notaries in Szombathely.