DOCUMENTATION OF SUCCESSION RIGHTS IN THE EU
DOCUMENTATION OF SUCCESSION RIGHTS IN THE EU

Summary/Abstract: In many legal systems, documents confirming the rights of the heirs and otherpeople benefiting from the inheritance are issued in order to confirm the rights to theinheritance acquired. The purpose of such documents is to present the rights undermortis causa legal succession to a third party, and legitimisation of the right currentlyvested in the entitled person, or solving of the possible doubts. Since the respectiveinstruments documenting the rights to inheritance are only of territorial nature, with theentrance into force of the EU Succession Regulation, the European heirs were offered anew instrument of trans-border consequences – the European Certificate of Succession.The author presents the problems of this area, with particular emphasis on collision ofvarious ways of documenting the rights to inheritance

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