An allotment and a berth are often not ownership

An allotment (volkstuin) and a berth (ligplaats) for a boat are often not land, and not water, that the deceased owned. They are usually a permit, a tenancy, or another contract with an association, a municipality, or a harbour. You read that on the paper before you put a value in the estate inventory. Without that paper a value is a guess, even if the garden looks cared for or the boat has lain there for years. The boat itself can be a separate good. The berth is not that of itself. Keep those two apart. The garden structure, if it belongs to the user, stands on the list as a good only if the contract says so. Do not invent that distinction.

Read who can end the right and whether it can pass to someone else. The rules of the site, or of the harbour, say that, not the custom of the neighbours. Ask the issuer of the permit, or the lessor of the berth, what applied on the date of death and which amount was outstanding. A contribution already paid is not an asset, unless the paper names a repayment. An outstanding amount is a debt only if the statement names it. Do not put a market value of a garden, or of a place on the water. The item remains a contract or a permit, with the name of the other party and the end date if the paper gives it. No end date on the paper means no term chosen by you.

The boat, the shed, or the tools get a line of their own only if they belonged to the deceased and have a source. An estimate, so that the list is not left empty, is not that source. First ask for the contract of the place. Only after that do you look at whether there are things that belong in the estate inventory apart from that place. Ervazo keeps the letter and the reply. It does not send them. Set a task to read the paper before anyone keys in a value. A value that already stands without a source you take off, or you label it as not yet supported, until the contract has been read. Better empty than a parcel that is not ownership.

An allotment or a berth does not come onto the list as land, or as water in ownership, while the paper shows a permit or a contract. Read that paper before you note a value. Contributions that have been paid are not an asset without a repayment that the other party names. This is not legal advice. What the right is, and whether it passes, is confirmed by the issuer or the lessor. If the other party is the municipality, the municipality confirms that. Whether a boat or a structure is in fact a good of the estate is confirmed by the notary together with the contract, not by an impression from the jetty.