Inheritance of land: what you need to know about land shares.

Inheritance of a share: how to do it

Inheritance of a share is one of the most common procedures in land relations. However, to carry out this procedure, you need to know the details.

Lawyer Larisa Kis commented to 24 Channel that the inheritance of a share occurs through the heir's appeal to the notary with a request to accept the inheritance (land share inheritance). This must be done no later than six months from the date of the testator's death.

The heir must provide the notary with documents confirming that the deceased had the right to use the share: State act on the right of ownership of land or an extract from the State Register of Real Rights to Real Estate and a Certificate for the share.

If the documents are lost, they need to be restored: obtain a copy of the state act on the share from the State Geocadastre. If the certificate for the share is lost, the heir must go to court and prove that the testator had the right to a part of the collective land.

Evidence may include:

• extracts from the Books of Registration of Certificates for land shares, indicating the details of the issued certificate, which are provided by the territorial bodies of the State Geocadastre;
• extracts from the Books of Records of State Acts on the right of ownership of land;
• certificates from rural and settlement councils indicating information about land plots accounted for by the testator.

After obtaining a positive court decision, the heir will be able to complete the inheritance procedure, obtain a certificate of inheritance rights, and subsequently complete the allocation of a land plot and registration of ownership rights to the land plot.