How to Recover an Inheritance in Poland While Living Abroad? Online Legal Assistance

How to Recover an Inheritance in Poland While Living Abroad? Online Legal Assistance

🏠 How to Recover an Inheritance in Poland While Living Abroad? Online Legal Assistance

Many people of Polish descent living abroad — especially in the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand — have family roots in Poland. But heritage alone isn’t enough to automatically inherit an estate left behind by relatives in Poland. Real estate, land, farms, or even bank accounts often remain unclaimed simply because the heirs don’t know how to begin the process.

👉 The good news is: Recovering an inheritance in Poland can be done fully online, without the need to travel. All that’s required is granting a power of attorney to a Polish attorney who will locate the estate and take the necessary legal steps to ensure the foreign heir can formally acquire and later sell the property.

⚖️ Inheriting Property in Poland – InheritSafe Law Firm

InheritSafe, a law firm founded by Dr. Joanna Susło, Attorney-at-Law, specializes in helping clients living outside Poland recover inherited assets, including real estate left by their relatives.

This service is primarily aimed at individuals from the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand — often children or grandchildren of Polish emigrants who left decades ago.

Many foreign heirs don’t know exactly where the property is located — they may only remember a street name. In other cases, other heirs in Poland may hide wills, or the heir abroad might only have old or partial documents and not know how to be officially recognized as a legal heir in Poland.

✅ InheritSafe ensures that the entire inheritance and property search process can be conducted remotely, based on a notarized power of attorney, without traveling to Poland. This speeds up the legal procedure and significantly reduces costs.

🔍 What Does the Inheritance Recovery Service Include?

1. 🗺️ Property Search in Poland

The InheritSafe team begins by identifying whether the deceased left behind any assets in Poland. These usually include:

  • 🏠 Properties with land and mortgage registers (KW)

  • 🌾 Agricultural land and plots

  • 🏢 Apartments in cities

  • 📜 Properties without KW, based on old family documents

  • 🧾 Cooperative housing units

  • 🏦 Bank accounts, company shares, bonds

If a property has a land and mortgage register (KW), it’s relatively easy to find — the firm uses public registers and databases. In more complex cases, when documentation is missing or outdated, InheritSafe conducts advanced archival research, including:

  • Historical land books (księgi hipoteczne)

  • Land records and local municipal files

Often, cooperation with a Polish court bailiff (komornik sądowy) is essential, as they can access official registries unavailable to private individuals.

2. ⚖️ Legal Representation in Probate Proceedings

Simultaneously with locating the assets, InheritSafe represents the client in Polish inheritance proceedings (stwierdzenie nabycia spadku).

With the power of attorney, the lawyer can handle all formalities. However, the heir will be required to attend an online court hearing, where the judge may ask about:

  • The family tree

  • The last place of residence of the deceased in Poland

  • Any known wills or family history

All communication and preparation are handled online — no physical presence in Poland is needed.

3. 🏘️ Property Management and Sale

Once the estate has been successfully inherited, InheritSafe can help with:

  • Managing the property

  • Renting it out

  • Preparing and handling the sale

  • Transferring funds abroad to the heir

This is a convenient and secure solution for people who have no intention of returning to Poland or dealing with Polish real estate directly.

👥 Who Is This Service For?

Clients of InheritSafe typically include:

  • People born abroad whose parents or grandparents left property in Poland

  • Heirs residing in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK

  • Individuals with partial or outdated information about the inherited property

  • Those who need legal assistance in cross-border inheritance matters

🌟 Why Choose InheritSafe?

  • 💻 Fully remote process – no need to travel to Poland

  • 📚 Years of experience – hundreds of cases handled for Polish diaspora worldwide

  • 🔍 Individual case analysis – every inheritance is treated with the utmost care

  • 🔁 Comprehensive service – from asset search to property sale

? Need Legal Assistance?

Navigating the sale of inherited property in Poland can be complex, especially for foreign heirs. For personalized guidance:

InheritSafe Poland
Dr. Joanna Susło, Ph.D., Attorney-at-Law
E-mail: [email protected]
Mobile / WhatsApp: +48 668 841 990