{"id":37173,"date":"2025-04-02T17:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harlander-partner.eu\/declaration-of-death\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:12:16","slug":"declaration-of-death","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/harlander-partner.eu\/en\/inheritance-law-estate-planning\/declaration-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaration of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a rule, death is proven by the post-mortem examination and the issuing of a medical certificate of death. However, these procedures require that the deceased person&#8217;s body is present. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the deceased person&#8217;s body cannot be found, this may also be significant for third parties, such as heirs seeking to settle an estate, or spouses considering remarriage.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this reason, the Declaration of Death Act (TEG) provides for both the possibility of a <a href=\"https:\/\/harlander-partner.eu\/en\/inheritance-law-estate-planning\/declaration-of-death\/\"><strong>declaration of death<\/strong><\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/harlander-partner.eu\/en\/inheritance-law-estate-planning\/declaration-of-death\/\"><strong>proving of death<\/strong><\/a> under certain conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a rule, death is proven by the post-mortem examination and the issuing of a medical certificate of death. However, these procedures require that the deceased person&#8217;s body is present. &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":40710,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37173","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-inheritance-law"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"336x":false,"352x":false,"woocommerce_thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_single":false,"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":false,"yarpp-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Peter Harlander","author_link":"https:\/\/harlander-partner.eu\/en\/author\/secondpromotion\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"As a rule, death is proven by the post-mortem examination and the issuing of a medical certificate of death. However, these procedures require that the deceased person&#8217;s body is present. ...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlander-partner.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlander-partner.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlander-partner.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlander-partner.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlander-partner.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harlander-partner.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37173\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlander-partner.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlander-partner.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlander-partner.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlander-partner.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}