Czechoslovakia passed a law to take one family's estate, and the Schwarzenberg heirs have lost every claim to it since

Adolf Schwarzenberg owned the Hluboká estate in South Bohemia. He opposed the Nazis, and in 1940 they seized the family property. In 1945 the Beneš decrees were applied to it on the ground that he was ethnic German. On 10 July 1947 parliament passed Act 143/1947, known as Lex Schwarzenberg. It moved the estate to the Czech Land "without compensation" and promised the owners a pension set by the government. Adolf died in 1950^† and left everything to his adopted son Jindřich. Jindřich's will favoured a male heir: his adopted son Karel got three quarters and his daughter Alžběta Pezoldová one quarter^†, and the heirs were told to seek return of the confiscated property. After 1989 restitution covered only seizures after 25 February 1948, so the courts refused her. In 2002 the UN Human Rights Committee found the Czech Republic had discriminated against her by denying her the documents and said she must be allowed to file a new claim. In 2009 the Constitutional Court opened the way to return the family tomb at Domanín. She also sued Karel, later foreign minister, for not pursuing the estate as the will required. She won at the Constitutional Court in 2012, lost in České Budějovice in 2017 and on appeal in 2018. In March 2019 both asked the Supreme Court to pause the case. Karel died on 12 November 2023. Her son Adam then said the family would not give up. The Hluboká estate remains with the state^†.