{"id":31402,"date":"2026-03-10T19:14:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/?p=31402"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:16:55","slug":"donations-what-should-you-know-before-transferring-assets-to-a-family-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/donations-what-should-you-know-before-transferring-assets-to-a-family-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Donations: what should you know before transferring assets to a family member?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Donations can be an effective way to organise assets and anticipate wealth transfer. <\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">However, Portuguese law protects certain heirs \u2014 such as children and spouse \u2014 by reserving them a minimum share of the estate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">This means that some donations may later need to be taken into account when calculating the inheritance or even adjusted if they affect that protected share. Careful legal and tax planning is therefore key to preventing future disputes among heirs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information or specialized assistance,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/meeting-scheduling\/\">click here to schedule a meeting with one of our professionals.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donations can be an effective way to organise assets and anticipate wealth transfer. However, Portuguese law protects certain heirs \u2014 such as children and spouse \u2014 by reserving them a minimum share of the estate. This means that some donations may later need to be taken into account when calculating the inheritance or even adjusted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sem-categoria","areas-family-and-inheritance"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FPD.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31404,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31402\/revisions\/31404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}