Planning the Future of Cross Border Families

Planning the Future of Cross Border Families
Author: Ilaria Viarengo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 975
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509919872

This book is built upon the outcomes of the EUFam's Project, financially supported by the EU Civil Justice Programme and led by the University of Milan. Also involved are the Universities of Heidelberg, Osijek, Valencia and Verona, the MPI in Luxembourg, the Italian and Spanish Family Lawyers Associations and training academies for judges in Italy and Croatia. The book seeks to offer an exhaustive overview of the regulatory framework of private international law in family and succession matters. The book addresses current features of the Brussels IIa, Rome III, Maintenance and Succession Regulations, the 2007 Hague Protocol, the 2007 Hague Recovery Convention and new Regulations on Property Regimes. The contributions are authored by more than 30 experts in cross-border family and succession matters. They introduce social and cultural issues of cross-border families, set up the scope of all EU family and succession regulations, examine rules on jurisdiction, applicable law and recognition and enforcement regimes and focus on the current problems of EU family and succession law (lis pendens in third States, forum necessitatis, Brexit and interactions with other legal instruments). The book also contains national reports from 6 Member States and annexes of interest for both legal scholars and practitioners (policy guidelines, model clauses and protocols).

Passing Wealth on Death

Passing Wealth on Death
Author: Alexandra Braun
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2016-07-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509907351

Wealth can be transferred on death in a number of different ways, most commonly by will. Yet a person can also use a variety of other means to benefit someone on death. Examples include donationes mortis causa, joint tenancies, trusts, life-insurance contracts and nominations in pension and retirement plans. In the US, these modes of transfer are grouped under the category of 'will-substitutes' and are generally treated as testamentary dispositions. Much has been written about the effect of the use of will-substitutes in the US, but little is generally known about developments in other jurisdictions. For the first time, this collection of contributions looks at will-substitutes from a comparative perspective. It examines mechanisms that pass wealth on death across a number of common law, civil law and mixed legal jurisdictions, and explores the rationale behind their use. It analyses them from different viewpoints, including those of owners of businesses, investors, as well as creditors, family members and dependants. The aims of the volume are to show the complexity and dynamics of wealth transfers on death across jurisdictions, to identify patterns between jurisdictions, and to report the attitudes towards the different modes of transfer in light of their utility and the potential frictions they give rise to with policies and principles underpinning current laws.

Cultural Heritage and International Law

Cultural Heritage and International Law
Author: Evelyne Lagrange
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2018-07-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3319787896

This book explores the objects, means and ends of international cultural heritage protection. It starts from a broad conception of cultural heritage that encompasses both tangible property, such as museum objects or buildings, and intangible heritage, such as languages and traditions. Cultural heritage thus defined is protected by various legal regimes, including the law of armed conflicts, UNESCO Conventions and international criminal law. With a view to strengthening international protection, the authors analyze existing regimes and elaborate innovative concepts, such as blue helmets of culture and safe havens for endangered cultural heritage. Finally, the ends of international protection come to the fore, and the authors address possible conflicts between protecting cultural diversity and wishes to strengthen cultural identity.

Regards croisés sur le patrimoine dans le monde à l'aube du XXIe siècle

Regards croisés sur le patrimoine dans le monde à l'aube du XXIe siècle
Author: Maria Gravari-Barbas
Publisher: Presses Paris Sorbonne
Total Pages: 964
Release: 2003
Genre: Common heritage of mankind (International law)
ISBN: 9782840502777

Un ensemble de réflexions et de témoignages sur la diversité des pratiques en matière de prise en compte du patrimoine dans les différentes aires géographiques et culturelles. Présentation des acteurs, des enjeux, des conflits autour de cette notion, des politiques patrimoniales urbaines, des approches de la restauration et de l'esthétique patrimoniale, des nouveaux objets et nouvelles approches.

American Exceptionalism, the French Exception, and Digital Media Law

American Exceptionalism, the French Exception, and Digital Media Law
Author: Lyombe S. Eko
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2013-07-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0739181130

This volume explores the sameness and difference between the United States and France in the matters of freedom of expression on the Internet. The United States and France are liberal democracies that are part of the Western family of nations. However, despite their many similarities, they have a number of cultural and ideological differences. The United States is generally France’s ally in time of war and its cultural nemesis in time of peace. One of the reasons for this unusual relationship is that the United States and France are self-described “exceptional” countries. The United States and France are therefore two Western countries separated by different exceptionalist logics. Lyombe Eko uses this concept of exceptionalism as a theoretical framework for the analysis of American and French resolution of problems of human rights and freedom of expression in the traditional media and on the Internet. This book therefore analyzes how each county applies rules and regulations designed to manage a number of issues of media communication in real space, to the realities and specificities of cyberspace, within the framework of their respective exceptionalist logics. The fundamental question addressed concerns what happens when rules and regulations designed to regulate the media in clearly defined, national and regional geographic spaces, are suddenly confronted with the new realities and multi-communication platforms of the interconnected virtual sphere of cyberspace.

Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe

Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe
Author: Tindara Addabbo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2016-04-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317130189

Feminist scholars have long pointed out the relevance of the unpaid work that goes on within European households in sustaining the well-being of the continent's populations. However, care work and domestic labour continue to be largely unremunerated and unequally distributed by gender. This unique volume of interdisciplinary essays casts new light on the roles that households play in securing the well-being of individuals and families, uncovering the processes of bargaining and accommodation, and conflict and compromise that underpin them. Contributors put gender at the centre of their analyses, demonstrating the uneven experiences of men and women as both providers and receivers of welfare in European households, in both the past and the present. As European states grapple with changing family forms, a growing population of dependent people, increased participation of women in labour markets and a profound shift in the nature and organisation of work, this book makes a timely contribution to our understanding of the critical role played by households in mediating processes of economic and social change. It offers new challenges to scholars, researchers and policy makers eager to address gender inequalities and enhance well-being. This book is the second of four volumes being published as part of Ashgate's 'Gender and Well-Being' series that arise from a programme of international symposia funded by the European Science Foundation under the auspices of COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research).

Stratégie de transmission d'un patrimoine international

Stratégie de transmission d'un patrimoine international
Author: Mariel Revillard
Publisher: Répertoire Defrénois
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2009
Genre: Conflict of laws
ISBN: 9782856231654

Les successions occupent une place prépondérante dans le droit international privé de la famille. Chaque année, un nombre considérable de successions internationales sont réglées en France : ainsi par exemple, des ressortissants de nationalité étrangère décèdent, soit en France, soit à l'étranger, laissant des biens non seulement en France, mais dans d'autres pays ; des français acquièrent des biens à l'étranger, etc. ; l'introduction de ces éléments d'extranéité soulève des questions spécifiques dans la dévolution future de leur succession. La répartition d'un patrimoine dans différents pays suscite des problèmes de droit international privé et le notaire intervient de plus en plus à titre préventif dans la préparation d'une succession internationale (Estate planning). Ceci suppose une parfaite connaissance des règles de conflit de lois, du droit interne étranger en matière de succession et de la fiscalité internationale. A partir de la présentation de 60 cas puisés dans la pratique notariale, cet ouvrage a pour objectif de résoudre les principales questions de droit international privé et de fiscalité internationale qui se présentent dans le cadre de la préparation et du règlement d'une succession internationale. Le repérage de ces difficultés permettra au praticien d'aborder sereinement la transmission d'un patrimoine international. Des informations concrètes de droit comparé contribuent à enrichir l'ouvrage : règles de conflit de lois en matière de succession dans 142 pays, droits successoraux du conjoint survivant, des concubins ou des partenaires, tableau de la fiscalité des successions dans 30 pays. Le règlement communautaire sur les successions et les testaments, qui devrait aboutir prochainement, n'enlève pas son intérêt à l'actualité de l'ouvrage. La fiscalité internationale, qui joue un rôle majeur dans la stratégie de la transmission d'un patrimoine international, n'est pas comprise dans le domaine du futur règlement. L'ouvrage, principalement destiné aux notaires et à leurs collaborateurs, devrait contribuer à enrichir leurs connaissances ainsi que celles de l'ensemble des praticiens sur le sujet.