The second edition of the monograph edited by Dr. Gerhard Schlitt and Dr. Gabriel Mueller "A statutory share in inheritance: practical guide" (Schlitt/Müller, Handbuch Pflichtteilsrecht, 2nd edition, C.H. Beck-Verlag, 2017), has been recently published in a leading German publishing house for legal literature C.H. Beck. The book is devoted to German and international inheritance law, in particular, to legal regulation of statutory share of successor in inheritance.