International Heritage
Legal resources for inheritances involving real estate, companies, accounts, investments, heirs or wills linked to different States, and to determine which country and legislation are relevant.
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Information about real estate, accounts, investments, and other assets located in different states.
View contents → (I.e.Appeals concerning habitual residence, nationality, choice of law, statutory rights and inheritance rules.
View contents → ◇Information on representation, powers, acceptance, resignation and documentary coordination between States.
View contents → ▤Resources on formal validity, interpretation, translation, legalization and effects of foreign wills.
View contents → ▦Information on shareholdings, business valuation, administration, continuity and corporate agreements.
View contents → ✓Resources on succession documents, recognition of resolutions and European Certificate of Succession.
View contents →All articles, analyses and content published by RRYP Global on international inheritances.

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Anonymized matters concerning inheritances with real estate, companies, wills, heirs and assets located in several countries.
View representative cases → (I.e.Official search engine for resolutions on successions, wills, legitime, partition, acceptance, renunciation and inheritance disputes.
Search for official case law ↗European, international and Spanish instruments on competence, applicable law, recognition of resolutions, wills, accreditation of heirs and processing of international successions.
It regulates jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement, public documents and the European Certificate of Succession within its scope.
Consult EUR-Lex ↗ ▤It establishes rules for determining the formal validity of testamentary provisions linked to different States.
Consult the HCCH ↗ (I.e.It contains the common civil rules on wills, intestate succession, forced heirship, acceptance, repudiation, partition and hereditary debts.
Consult the Official State Gazette (BOE) ↗ §It regulates procedural actions related to the judicial division of inheritance, intervention and administration of the hereditary estate.
Consult the Official State Gazette (BOE) ↗ ↔Spanish subsidiary regime on cooperation, proof of foreign law and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.
Consult the Official State Gazette (BOE) ↗ iOfficial resource with information on inheritances, authorities, documents and procedures applicable in Spain.
Consult official information ↗