The VvE contribution does not stop at the death

An apartment in an owners' association (vereniging van eigenaars, VvE) remains bound to the VvE when the owner dies. The contribution continues. The apartment does not become free of the VvE because the name on the deed has dropped away. In the file stand the address, the name of the VvE, and whether there is a manager. The contribution is a charge with a source, not an amount you carry forward from an old bill without asking whether it still holds. Ask the VvE for the balance on the date of death, for any arrears, and for a decision taken on the reserve fund if there is one. Three answers, three fields.

Arrears are a debt of the estate inventory insofar as they existed on the date of death and the statement names them. A contribution that falls due after the date of death you keep separate, with the period beside it, so the reference date does not shift. The reserve fund is not a savings pot that you transfer to the heirs because the owner has died. Ask whether a decision lies on that fund, and keep the decision or the message that there is none. Do not invent a share in the fund, and do not invent a payout. The VvE line states what the association writes, not what a family member thinks is in the till. Until that letter exists, the item stays open.

Write to the VvE, or to the manager if the manager keeps the records. Ask for the balance, the arrears, and the decision on the reserve fund in the same letter, so you do not look up the same address three times. State the date of death and the address of the apartment. Do not ask for a waiver, and do not offer an arrangement, before the statement has come in. Ervazo keeps the letter and the reply. It does not send them. Put the task with the person who sends the letter, and a second task to place the three answers on the right line. A reply that only encloses annual accounts is not yet a balance on the date of death. Ask further, and keep that second letter as well.

The contribution, the arrears, and the reserve fund stay visible for as long as the apartment sits in the estate inventory. An apartment does not become free of debt toward the VvE by the death alone. A later sale or transfer does not make the question of the position on the date of death unnecessary. That position is the reference date of the estate inventory. What runs after that you note as a follow-on, with its own period. This is not legal advice. The balance, the arrears, and a decision on the reserve fund are confirmed by the VvE or its manager. Whether those items belong in the estate in that way is confirmed by the notary if the deed or the distribution gives reason for it.