Questions
The ones that actually get asked, answered plainly.
Is Kliros a law firm?
No, and we cannot represent you. We turn the published rules into an answer about which procedure your facts point to, and we assemble your case into a file a Greek professional can act on. The legal work itself is done by a licensed lawyer, notary or registered cadastral mediator, who is not us.
Why is the answer free if the file costs money?
Because charging for the answer would be selling a legal conclusion, and we are not licensed to do that in Greece. Charging for a well-built file is selling organisation, which we are. It also happens to be the honest split: the answer takes us a database query, and the file is the part that saves you three phone calls and a fortnight.
Do you take a cut of what the lawyer charges me?
No. Professionals pay us a flat monthly fee to be listed for the districts they cover, and nothing per client. Fee-splitting with an intermediary is exactly what article 10 of the Greek Code of Conduct for lawyers is aimed at, and it would also give us a reason to send you to whoever pays the most. So we do not do it.
I live abroad and have never dealt with any of this. Do I have to come to Greece?
Usually not. Almost every step (the acceptance deed, the tax return, the cadastre registration) can be done by a lawyer in Greece on a power of attorney that you sign at a notary or consulate where you live, with an apostille and a certified translation. The cases that do need you in person are the exception, and your case file says whether yours is one.
The cadastre says “unknown owner” for my grandfather's land. Is it gone?
Not necessarily, and the date matters more than anything else. There is a correction window that closes on 31 December of the eighth year after the local cadastral office opened, and for offices operating by the end of 2015 it closed on 30 November 2024. If it is still open and the family holds a title, the fix is administrative. If it has closed, or there is no title, article 61 of Law 5326/2026 opens a mandatory mediation route from 16 September 2026 for families who have used the property for twenty years. Run the check: it will tell you which of those you are in.
How accurate are the cost estimates?
They are ranges built from published fee schedules and professional practice, and they are the shape of the cost rather than a quote. Notary fees are a percentage and therefore fairly predictable; lawyers' fees vary by several thousand euro between Athens and a small island, and litigation is the least predictable of all. The inheritance tax figure is computed properly from the brackets, but on the objective value you gave us and on equal shares. If either is wrong, so is the tax.
Who sees my answers?
Us, and the one professional we match you with if you ask to be matched. Not a marketing list, not a lead exchange, not a data broker. Your answers include information about a person who has died and sometimes about co-heirs who never used this site, which is precisely why we delete everything after twenty-four months and let you delete it yourself at any time from the privacy page.
Anyone with my case link can open it. Is that safe?
It is the same posture as a shared document link, and it is deliberate: you are going to forward this to a lawyer, possibly to a sibling in another country, and making you create an account first would help nobody. The link has 192 bits of randomness in it, so it will not be guessed. Treat it as a document rather than a password, and if you want it gone, the privacy page erases it immediately.
What if the check gets my case wrong?
Tell us and we will refund the file. The engine encodes rules, and rules meet facts they did not anticipate: a will nobody mentioned, a boundary that moved, an office whose start year is not what the website says. That is also why every paid file ends in questions for the professional rather than instructions to them.
Do you work outside Greece?
No. The whole product is Greek inheritance and Greek cadastre law, which is unusually specific: the tracks, the deadlines, the tax brackets and the mediation procedure are all particular to Greece. A generic version of this would be useless.