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Constituency Week
Conciliation Committee
18.02.2010 - 19.02.2010
Cross-Border Successions
Academy of European Law (ERA)
Metzer Allee 4
D-54295 Trier
Phone: +49 (0)651 93 7370
Fax: +49 (0)651 93 7379
Email: info@era.int
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Cross-Border Successions
Academy of European Law (ERA)
Metzer Allee 4
D-54295 Trier
Phone: +49 (0)651 93 7370
Fax: +49 (0)651 93 7379
Email: info@era.int
Link to the organizer
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Discussion / Debate / Lecture
Type of Event
Foreign & Security Policy
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Registration required, Entrance fee
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ERA Congress Centre Trier
Metzer Allee 4,
54295 Trier
Germany
Metzer Allee 4,
54295 Trier
Germany
Location of event
This conference will focus on the law relating to the estimated 450 000 successions with a cross-border dimension, with a combined value of EUR 123 billion, that take place each year in the EU.
The idea is to provide participants with an in-depth analysis of the possible future European instrument on successions. The objective of the conference is to promote a far-reaching and thorough debate concerning the most important or complex issues inherent to cross-border successions upon death.
The following most topical issues will be on the agenda:
* Scope of the instrument and the exclusion of property rights/trusts
* Freedom to testate of forced heirship?
* Drafting testamentary dispositions, joint wills and agreements as to succession
* Which court is competent to decide cross-border succession cases?
* Scope of the applicable law, including administration and distribution of the estate
* The impact of matrimonial property and the lex rei sitae on inheritance law
* Recognition and enforcement of decisions and authentic documents
* Creation, contents and effects of the European Certificate of Succession
The idea is to provide participants with an in-depth analysis of the possible future European instrument on successions. The objective of the conference is to promote a far-reaching and thorough debate concerning the most important or complex issues inherent to cross-border successions upon death.
The following most topical issues will be on the agenda:
* Scope of the instrument and the exclusion of property rights/trusts
* Freedom to testate of forced heirship?
* Drafting testamentary dispositions, joint wills and agreements as to succession
* Which court is competent to decide cross-border succession cases?
* Scope of the applicable law, including administration and distribution of the estate
* The impact of matrimonial property and the lex rei sitae on inheritance law
* Recognition and enforcement of decisions and authentic documents
* Creation, contents and effects of the European Certificate of Succession
Infos
Mari Aalto, Legal Officer, DG Justice, Freedom; Professor Andrea Bonomi, University of Lausanne; Dr Anatol Dutta, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg; Professor Sjef van Erp, University of Maastricht; Rafael Gil Nievas, Permanent Representation of Spain to the EU, Brussels; Professor Jonathan Harris, Barrister, Serle Court, London; University of Birmingham; Christian Hertel, Notary, Weilheim; Dr Marius Kohler, Director, Federal Chamber of German Civil Notaries, Brussels
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