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In this article Daniele Muritano TEP of Legal4Italy addresses the problems regarding cross borders successions and forced heirs rights from an Italian perspective after the Succession Regulation [...]

The Regulation unifies the application of succession law around the law of the member state of the deceased’s last habitual residence and applies its succession laws to the deceased’s worldwide [...]

There have been many attempts to harmonise succession laws within the EU. It is clearly a barrier to the free movement of goods/persons if probate, or the local equivalent, has to be obtained in [...]

 A gift made in contemplation of death (donatio mortis causa) is neither entirely made inter vivos nor testamentary. It must be made in contemplation, though not necessarily in expectation, of [...]

Until now, different states have had completely different private international law rules (“PIL”) for succession. The Succession Regulation (“SR”) has attempted to harmonise PIL for succession [...]