Family and succession law

Author(s)

• Pintens, Walter
• Blanpain, R. (Roger)

Bibliographic Information

Family and succession law

editor, Walter Pintens

（International encyclopaedia of laws / general editor, R. Blanpain ; administrative director, Angela Fairbank）

Kluwer Law International, 1997

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Family and succession law are tightly bound together. Succession law is usually based on kindred relationships as established by family law. The trends established in the marital property laws and succession laws are often a result of developments in family law. Equality of spouses and of all children, regardless of their descent, is not without consequences for marital property laws and succession law. Therefore, this comprehensive comparative looseleaf set covers family law together with marital property law and succession law. In addition to the national monographs that follow the outline below, this subset of the International Encyclopaedia of Laws currently includes a monograph for the European Union. Forthcoming supplements will include international monographs describing the activities of several international organizations in the domain of family and succession law, such as the United Nations, the Council of Europe, and the International Commission on Civil Status. This set is primarily intended for judges, notaries, lawyers, and registrars of civil status who find themselves having to apply foreign laws as a result of applicable law rules of international private law. However, it is also of great value to academics and researchers, for whom it stimulates comparative studies by providing the necessary basic materials of family and succession law.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 General introduction: general background information
• historical background
• demographic data
• sources of law and the administering courts. Part 2 Persons: the status of a person
• registrations of civil status
• personality rights
• acquisition and changing names
• nationality
• domicile and residence
• mentally handicapped persons. Part 3 Family law: marriage
• the nature and capacity to marry
• formalities and effects of marriage
• void/voidable marriages
• divorce
• cohabitation without marriage
• filiation
• adoption
• parental authority
• guardianship
• kinship and relationships of affinity. Part 4 Matrimonial property law: rights and obligations of spouses
• the matrimonial home
• transactions between spouses
• the marriage settlement
• the legal matrimonial regime
• conventional matrimonial regimes. Part 5 Succession law: intestate succession
• the heir
• capacity of succeed
• commorientes
• the system of descent
• classes of heirs
• representation
• the anomalous succession
• the rights of the State on the "bona vacantia"
• testementary succession
• different types of will
• acts "inter vivos" related to the estate, estate planning
• trusts, acquisition and administration of the estate. (Part contents).

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Details

• NCID: BA33867845
• ISBN:
  • 9789065448880
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: The Hague
• Pages/Volumes: v. (loose lead)
• Size: 25 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA14350354