Доверительная собственность (траст) в законодательстве, правовой доктрине и судебной практике стран романо-германской правовой семьи

Abstract

As of today, some civil law jurisdictions have adopted domestic trust legislation acknowledging a trust as a form of ownership. Several civil law jurisdictions have recognised foreign trusts in recent years as a regulatory and tax matter, in order to find and document the offshore assets of their taxpayers and other jurisdictions have adopted the Hague Trust Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and on Their Recognition 1985, simplifying the construction and recognition of foreign trusts, because the Convention imports specific conflict of law provisions into the law of the countries that have adopted it. In the other civil law jurisdictions that have not adopted the Trust Convention, the election of law made by the settlor will generally be recognised if their laws authorise an election. Notwithstanding the fact that an election of a foreign law or a foreign forum is made in the trust deed, the court is going to turn to its domestic laws and among other things to its own conflict of law provisions to determine the validity of the election made. The construction and recognition of foreign trusts will rely uniquely on case law in a jurisdiction where there is no conflict of law provisions for trusts. In all civil law jurisdictions transfers in trust are generally void to the extent they deprive an heir of her forced share or a spouse of her share in a community property, if the trust violates rule against perpetuities or any other mandatory provision of domestic legislation. In light of the aforementioned, the aim of the article is to show that сivil law jurisdictions search for new ways to afford the benefit of trusts in a variety of settings.