Suc­ces­sion of Brit­ish cit­izens in Spain after the entry into force of Reg­u­la­tion 650/2012

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

This art­icle by Alf­onso Ybarra Bores ex­am­ines the prac­tic­al ques­tions that arose after the new European Suc­ces­sion Reg­u­la­tion began to apply on 17 August 2015. It fo­cuses on suc­ces­sions opened in Spain in­volving Brit­ish cit­izens, in par­tic­u­lar the po­ten­tial valid­ity of a test­a­ment­ary choice of ap­plic­able law made before that date, the con­tin­ued use of par­tial wills for assets situ­ated in Spain, and the emer­ging po­s­i­tion on cer­ti­fic­ates from for­eign last-wills re­gis­tries.