Family and Private Client
The decisions a family makes about its wealth are rarely purely legal or financial. They are personal. Families, business owners, and individuals with significant personal assets often face legal issues that extend beyond a single transaction or life event. Protecting wealth, planning for succession, preserving family harmony, and navigating cross-border considerations require advice that is both technically sound and deeply personal.
At AHP, we help Indonesian and international clients protect and transition personal and family wealth across generations. Our work spans succession and estate planning and family arrangements, as well as the disputes that sometimes follow. Our lawyers have advised individuals, families, family-owned businesses, multinationals, banks, and insurers on these matters for decades, combining that experience with a practical, highly personalised approach tailored to each family's circumstances, values, and long-term objectives.
Why AHP
We know Indonesian family law from the inside. Family and inheritance matters run through two separate systems, for Muslims and for non-Muslims. Plans often come apart where Islamic inheritance principles, the Civil Code's inheritance framework, and a family's own wishes meet. We help you shape how wealth is given, held, and passed on, helping to ensure that your wishes are reflected for generations to come.
We are ready if things turn difficult. A meaningful part of our work involves disputes: contested estates, inheritance and probate disputes, and litigation that crosses borders. We work closely with clients to help prevent disputes where possible, and to protect their interests when they cannot be avoided.
The family and the family business are often the same conversation. When a business passes to the next generation, the risk is not only in the share register. It is in the people: long-serving directors, management, and key-person arrangements. Our private client and employment teams work side by side, so a succession plan looks after the people who run the business, not just the shares that own it.
What we do
Estate planning and succession
- Estate and wealth succession strategy
- Wills, wasiat, statements of wishes, and related documents
- Asset distribution (including hibah) and family-protection arrangements
- Advice on mental capacity, guardianship, and adoption
Family business and asset structuring
- Family business succession, governance, and key-person arrangements
- Asset protection within the Indonesian framework
- Family office and coordination of offshore structures
- Advice on trusts and how trust arrangements affect Indonesian assets
Family and personal matters
- Pre-marital and post-marital agreements, and post-marital settlements
- Matrimonial, custody, and spousal-support matters
- Immigration, citizenship, and change of nationality
- Multi-jurisdictional family arrangements
Inheritance and estate administration
- Inheritance law advisory across the applicable regime
- Estate administration and distribution of assets
- Representation in inheritance, probate, and family disputes, at home and across borders
Our selected experience
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- Assisting Indonesian families with estate planning, which includes passing assets, shares, and properties to their children and grandchildren, with wills and statements of wishes
- Assisting families with matters pertaining under Islamic inheritance law
- Representing family members in disputes over assets, land, and shares spread across Indonesia and overseas
- Advising on multi-jurisdictional wills and joint accounts, with our opinion relied on in foreign court proceedings
- Giving expert opinions on Indonesian inheritance law to foreign courts
- Pre-nuptial agreements, post-marital settlements, and custody matters before the civil and religious courts
- Advising banks and insurers on family and inheritance issues that arise when a counterparty or insured passes away
When family reaches across borders
Plenty of families today are connected to more than one country, through a business, an investment, a property, where they live, or where their children have settled. As a member firm of Rajah & Tann Asia, one of the region's largest legal networks with more than 1,000 lawyers across ten countries (and desks for Brunei, Japan, and South Asia), we can coordinate advice across those borders smoothly, while keeping the Indonesian side firmly anchored at home.
Our Team
Family and wealth matters rarely sit inside a single area of law. One plan can touch company ownership, tax, property, financing, and immigration at the same time, and may need litigators if a dispute arises. Because AHP is a full-service firm, we draw on the right people from across the firm and provide coordinated advice tailored to our clients’ needs.
Depending on what your matter calls for, the team can draw on AHP's:
- Corporate and M&A practice, for holding companies and shareholding structures
- Tax practice, for transfer and cross-border tax questions
- Real estate practice, for land and property
- Banking and finance practice, where assets are financed or secured
- Dispute resolution practice, for contested estates and litigation
- Employment practice, for residency, immigration, and citizenship
