Inheritance & Probate in Chile

If a relative who owned property in Chile has passed away, those assets — a house, an apartment, a parcel of land, vehicles or bank accounts — are frozen until the Chilean probate, known as "posesión efectiva", is completed. Only then can the heirs register, sell or distribute the estate.

What we handle

• Probate (posesión efectiva) — with or without a will, before the Civil Registry or the courts.
• Inventory of the estate and calculation of the inheritance tax (Law 16.271).
• Registration of the inherited property in the heirs' names at the Real Estate Registry.
• Rural land without title: we combine probate with title regularization (D.L. 2695) so the land ends up clean and registered.
• Distribution or sale of the assets among the heirs, including subdivision of inherited land.

Heirs living abroad

You do not need to be in Chile. Most steps are handled before public bodies — often online — and with a power of attorney we act on your behalf from start to finish, in English and Spanish. This makes us a natural choice for foreign heirs and for Chileans living overseas who need to settle an estate back home.

Inherited land or a parcel in the south?

Estates in southern Chile often include rural land or "parcelas de agrado" that were never properly titled or were bought as shares of a community. We resolve both the inheritance and the property regularization together, so the heirs receive a registered, sellable asset.