{"id":1376,"date":"2017-10-27T18:11:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T18:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vbbabogados.com\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2021-03-17T08:47:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T08:47:50","slug":"european-inheritance-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vbbabogados.com\/en\/blog\/european-inheritance-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"European inheritance regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 17, 2015 entered into force\u00a0<strong>EU regulation 650\/2012, of 4\u00a0July,<\/strong>\u00a0known as\u00a0<strong>the European Regulation<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>for successions,<\/strong>\u00a0for the application of international law in the case of succession because of death in which concurs an international element,\u00a0such as\u00a0the deceased resided or had some good in a State other than their origin.<\/p>\n<p>This circumstance is highly prevalent today for example in Spain live about five million\u00a0foreigners\u00a0of which approximately two million eight hundred thousand are citizens in the regime of free movement in the European Union, the most numerous from the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The Regulation introduces profound changes in national systems of private international succession law.\u00a0<strong>In the case of Spain, the nationality of the deceased gives way to<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>place of habitual residence as<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>main criteria for determining the applicable law and allows the choice of applicable law (limited to national law or residency place law).\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Other countries such as\u00a0<strong>France or<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Belgium,<\/strong>\u00a0they also apply a single law to the whole succession, when they used to distinguish between the succession of immovable property, which was governed by the law of the state in which the property was situated, and that of movable property, which was governed by the national law of the deceased or by the state of their last domicile.<\/p>\n<p>As regards the scope of\u00a0<strong>European Succession Regulation<\/strong>\u00a0must take into account that has been adopted by all members\u00a0<strong>except<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>the UK, Ireland and Denmark.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>But its rules are universal, not only for EU citizens but also for those of any other state in the world.<\/strong>\u00a0 Consequently,\u00a0notaries and judges of the member states of the European Union will apply the same rules to the succession of a Spanish, a German, an Argentine and a Briton.\u00a0For example, the inheritance of a British citizen residing in Spain will be subject to the legal system established in Spanish law that reserves a portion of the state to children, a provision unrelated to the legal tradition of the United Kingdom which is based on the absolute freedom of any person to dispose of his property to his death as you see fit.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>residence<\/strong>\u00a0criteria followed by the European Regulation will determine a lower application of foreign law.\u00a0This can be avoided\u00a0by\u00a0giving\u00a0a last <strong>will<\/strong>\u00a0in which it is opted for the application of the national law, recommendable in all those cases in which a person wants to maintain the link between his succession and his national law, planning its succession, and do not leaving it to depend on something uncertain as the place of\u00a0habitual residence, which in some cases may be difficult to establish with certainty.<\/p>\n<p>In these situations it is advisable in the will or succession agreements to make express reference to the law (national or residence) that is of desired application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 17, 2015 entered into force\u00a0EU regulation 650\/2012, of 4\u00a0July,\u00a0known as\u00a0the European Regulation\u00a0for successions,\u00a0for the application of international law in the case of succession because of death in which concurs an international element,\u00a0such as\u00a0the deceased resided or had some good in a State other than their origin. 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