Succession
Estate Disputes Handled with Sensitivity, Strategy, and Discretion
Keystone Partners offers end-to-end legal solutions in succession and inheritance matters, from estate planning and will drafting to contentious probate and administration proceedings. We represent individuals and families in disputes before the Supreme Court, High Courts, and district courts across India—tailoring our approach to each client’s personal, legal, and financial priorities.
Our work balances legal precision with the emotional nuances of family disputes, often exploring negotiation-led settlements to safeguard relationships and preserve estate value.
Service overview
Proven Experience, Outstanding Results
We provide end-to-end succession services that cover every aspect of the dispute resolution process. Our offerings include:
Estate Planning
We assist clients with estate planning and drafting of wills including setting up trusts, and drafting living wills and medical powers of attorney.
Will Disputes
We assist with challenges to wills including in relation to questions of testamentary capacity and genuineness of wills, proceedings for probate and letters of administration, disputes relating to interpretation of wills, and on the discharge of obligations by executors/trustees, and disputes with or between executors/ trustees.
Intestate Succession
We advise clients on claims for partition and division of ancestral, joint family, and individually-held property, applications for letters of administration, advisory on securing moveable and immovable assets including proceedings for succession certificates
Representative experience
Will Disputes
Advising and acting for the executor and primary beneficiary of the high-value estate of an eminent lawyer, in testamentary proceedings.
Will Disputes
Acting for the daughter of a deceased High Court judge in a contested dispute over the validity of his will.
Will Disputes
Acting for high net worth defendants in administration suits arising out of a complex family dispute concerning a sizeable estate with valuable properties in prime locations — raising significant questions of testamentary capacity.
Will Disputes
Regularly acting for clients in obtaining probate of wills and letters of administration across multiple jurisdictions.
Property Succession
Acting for a high net worth individual in a heavily contested trial before the Bombay High Court, challenging succession to some of Mumbai’s leading properties.
Property Succession
Conducting trials in disputes concerning succession to high-value estates, including matters involving real estate transactions and the rights of coparceners in ancestral property.
Property Succession
Advising clients on partition and division of joint family and ancestral property, and on the statutory frameworks governing transfers of property rights on succession.
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