by ICRtranslations | Oct 13, 2021 | Legal words
Continuing my series of blog posts comparing wills and succession aspects across different jurisdictions, today I look at six differences between English and Scottish wills. For another wills-related comparison, read the article on differences between English and...
by ICRtranslations | May 26, 2021 | Legal words
During the four-month course on Scots wills and executries I recently completed, I read about and studied numerous cases. While I did not manage to remember as many cases as I would have liked to, some of them stuck early on. The more unusual the facts or the...
by ICRtranslations | May 5, 2021 | Legal words
Following up on my article about managing the affairs of missing persons, where I wrote about guardians (EW), judicial factors loco absentis (SCO) and representantes del ausente (SPA), today I share information about declaring missing persons dead in England and...
by ICRtranslations | Apr 14, 2021 | Legal words
People going missing for a long time can have enormous implications for their family members regarding dealing with their property and financial affairs. In this article, I share general information about managing a missing person’s affairs in England and Wales,...
by ICRtranslations | Mar 24, 2021 | Legal words
Are you automatically entitled to a share of your deceased spouse’s or civil partner’s estate? In this article, I share basic information on the rights of spouses and civil partners on death in three different legal systems: England and Wales, Scotland, and Spain....
by ICRtranslations | Jan 11, 2021 | Legal words
When two or more people buy property jointly, they can take steps so that the share of the first one of them to die passes automatically to the other, irrespective of their wills. Well, at least they can do so in Scotland and in England and Wales, but not in Spain. In...
