Property succession: A clear route map for foreign property inheritance by minors

Ten Old Square | July/August 2022 #235
A recent Family Court decision has valuable lessons for trust and estate practitioners dealing with foreign property inherited by a minor. Georgia Bedworth reports The decision in Re B makes clear that in English law, just as in civil law jurisdictions, the power to administer property on behalf of a child is an aspect of …

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Conflicts of law: Observing the orthodoxy

Ten Old Square | June 2021 #224
Richard Dew explores a case which concerns Norwegian law, the question of domicile and the principles of ademption The claimant needed to persuade the court to characterise the issue before it not as one of the division of the estate of Elizabeth but as something else, to which the English court could apply Norwegian law. …

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