Legal Opinion
Diedenhofen-Lennartz v. Diedenhofen
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Decided August 8, 2007No. C.A. 2589-VCSPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
STRINE, Vice Chancellor.
I. Introduction
This is the fifth civil action filed in an international struggle among the children of Gunter and Ingeborg Diedenhofen over the ownership and control of the family’s assets. The five Diedenhofen children and their mother are Gesells-chafber, or partners, in EVA Eifeler Ver-mogensanlagen (“EVA”). EVA is a Ge-sellschaft burgerlichen Rechts, a German business entity similar in some respects to an American partnership. The plaintiffs in this case are EVA, and four of the five Diedenhofen children — Volker, Gotz, and Rudiger Diedenhofen and Elea-nore…
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