Succession Q And A

The aim of this book is to provide samples of the types of questions found both at first degree level and on diploma courses. This third edition has been extensively updated, including extra introductory notes and new chapters on the nature of wills and the mental element, formalities, revocation and alterations, and intestacy. The detailed coverage of family provision, construction and the administration of estates has also been expanded. The areas of mutual and privileged wills, and the growing number of decisions involving claims in negligence brought by disappointed beneficiaries against solicitors, are also incorporated.

This is the sixth report from the European Union Committee of the 2009-10 session and looks at the EU's Regulation on Succession (HLP 75, ISBN 9780108459757). In October 2009 the EU Commission proposed legislation which aims to simplify the law affecting those who die having exercised their right to free movement, either by moving to another Member State to live or by buying property in a Member State other than their own. The law of succession regulates how a person's property is dealt with on their death - including the mechanism for paying taxes and other creditors, establishing who is entitled to inherit the deceased's property and how that property is to be transferred to those entitled to it. Where this involves the law of more than one Member State complications arise which can have a significant impact since the people affected are likely to be emotionally vulnerable because of bereavement. The Committee states it welcomes the fact that the Commission has not proposed harmonisation of the substantive law of succession and support the Commission's underlying, and more limited, objective of prescribing which state's law ofsuccession is to apply to the whole of a deceased person's estate; but only to the extent of determining who is entitled to inherit what property. The Committee believes to go further puts at risk important interests, not least property rights, the collection of taxes and the protection of creditors. The Committee also identifies a serious defect in the EU's proposal that it could result in gifts made in the UK by deceased persons during their lifetime, including gifts to charity, being claimed back by their heirs, under a process known as clawback.

A work aiming to provide samples of the type of questions found in succession at both first degree level and at diploma course level. The questions are mainly in problem form, with some essays. Areas covered include making and revoking wills, intestate succession, types of legacy and more.

This book presents a broad overview of succession law, encompassing aspects of family law, testamentary law and legal history. It examines society and legal practice in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present from both a legal and a sociological perspective. The contributing authors investigate various aspects of succession law that have not yet been thoroughly examined by legal historians, and in doing so they not only add to our knowledge of past succession law but also provide a valuable key to interpreting and understanding current European succession law. Readers can explore such issues as the importance of a father’s permission to marry in relation to disinheritance, as well as inheritance transactions and private, dynastic and cross-border successions. Further themes addressed by the expert contributors include women’s inheritance rights, the laws of succession for the prince in legal consulting, and succession in the Rota Romana’s jurisprudence.