Dillemas of Documenting Succession Rights in the EU
Dillemas of Documenting Succession Rights in the EU

Summary/Abstract: In many legal systems, documents confirming the rights of the heirs and other people benefiting from the inheritance are issued in order to confirm the rights to the inheritance acquired. The purpose of such documents is to present the rights under mortis causa legal succession to a third party, and legitimisation of the right currently vested in the entitled person, or solving of the possible doubts. Since the respective instruments documenting the rights to inheritance are only of territorial nature, with the entrance into force of the EU Succession Regulation, the European heirs were offered a new instrument of trans-border consequences – the European Certificate of Succession. This new Certificate was supposed to eliminate the previous imperfections in the system of documenting succession rights. After nearly two years of applying the new legal act it may be assumed that the new provisions have not dispelled the doubts.

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