Posts tagged 'Estate management'

Consolidating context

Is a close connection relevant?

Connecting nodes

How to notice what is difficult to see

Navigating incompleteness

English trusts law, French incapacity practice, and legal undirected graphs

From melting borders to fading people

Casting a new light on surrogacy and digital assets

Estate liquidation in the context of incapacity

Looking for effectiveness

Formalities in international law

Competent authorities

Incapacity, estate management, family disputes

Getting to the hardcore of trusts and estates

French trust reflections

A Christmas cracker

Five forced heirs, no undivided rights

A simple way to solve estate-management issues

Immovables' movements

Matrimonial physics in action

French matrimonial physics

Managing a matrimonial estate

Beware of appearance

A too obvious pitfall

A different approach to ownership

Ownership is sometimes seen as the main issue in estate matters. Looking at English trust law alongside with a recent case decided by the French Cour de cassation helps to realise that this impression is often caused by the fact that the practitioner pays too much attention to black letter law.

Successions beyond formalities

The journey of a will in the psychedelic world of market integration

Legal title and succession

Two tips to prevent you from handling French estate matters upside down

French variations on English trusts

Combining French respect for ownership with English attention to the beneficiary's interest

Cross-border estates: A practical approach

How to solve cross-border issues by relying on your education in trusts.

Forced heirship: How does it matter?

Mr. and Mrs. Jones own a house in Southern France. While enjoying lovely weather and fine wine, they start thinking about estate planning. They have read about forced heirship in French law on the Internet and are considering the transfer of the legal title to the house situated in France …