Matters of taste
A Christmas cracker
Posts in 'Trusts and Estates'
Code, assets, and people
Looking for the next simulacrum
Exclusive enjoyment in practice
An immoveable Easter egg filled with artificial intelligence
Unwritten date
The link between formalities and freedom
Describing fraud or feeling it?
Different approaches to fraud in French private international law
Back to basics
A Christmas cracker for trusts nerds and computer geeks
Automated hacking
The process or the thing
Beyond the vehicle
What about domestic law?
Heavy and soft
A new paradigm
Formalities in international law
Competent authorities
Digital assets and fake estates
Digital autonomy
Vulnerability and data
A Christmas cracker
Incapacity to receive
When awareness hinders freedom
A jurisdictional engine
Successions powered by courts
Wishes expressed outside testament
Applicability of the EU Succession Regulation
Dates and names
Formal issues regarding the European succession certificate
French forced heirship revitalised?
About a shaky and stiff piece of legislation
Movable or immovable?
A methodological reminder
Did I need assistance to move down the tree?
Negotiorum gestio and probate genealogists
Ashes to ashes
A matter of consistency
Five forced heirs, no undivided rights
A simple way to solve estate-management issues
French matrimonial physics
Managing a matrimonial estate
Digital assets in French successions
A personal introduction
Circulating and travelling
Successions in motion
Let forced heirship swing
A Christmas cracker
European succession regulation
How legal harmonisation works
The spouse's right to pension
A limit to testamentary freedom
Protecting the vulnerable person
A French tribute to Equity
Intention and inter vivos gifts
How to treat the intention of an artist after his death
The distinction between disability and incapacity
When facts are used to preserve intention.
Funeral in an international context
Beware of lois de police!
International will rescue
How judges use international law to rescue a will.
French trust law
A Christmas cracker
Testament by SMS
The Australian case Re Nichol compared to a French one.
A different approach to ownership
Ownership is sometimes seen as the main issue in estate matters. Looking at English trust law alongside with a recent case decided by the French Cour de cassation helps to realise that this impression is often caused by the fact that the practitioner pays too much attention to black letter law.
Successions beyond formalities
The journey of a will in the psychedelic world of market integration
French variations on English trusts
Combining French respect for ownership with English attention to the beneficiary's interest
Intention, natural obligations and resulting trusts
The French Cour de cassation and the Privy council have recently considered the effect of intention in relationships that were not based on legal obligations.
A Christmas cracker for trust nerds
I would like to share with you my impression as to what makes trusts unique.
Forced heirship and globalisation
The French Cour de cassation has recently decided two important cases regarding forced heirship1. This court is the supreme court that deals with civil, commercial, and criminal cases. It confirmed an important appeal case that has been commented earlier on this blog. The Cour de cassation also decided another …