Abstract
This section compares law and practice of various jurisdictions in particular areas. We use the Q&A format familiar to readers of the World Trust Survey, but the In Focus section asks for more detailed answers than in the Survey. For 2009 the subject is succession, looking particularly at applicable laws, conflict of laws, forced heirship rights and the division of community property from an onshore perspective and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in relation to forced heirship, matrimonial property and foreign community property from an offshore perspective. In this issue, we deal with the onshore position in Italy and the offshore position in Jersey. This In Focus survey looks at Italian law on certain matters concerning succession, forced heirship and matrimonial rights. The answers are necessarily brief and no substitute for proper exhaustive legal advice. The Italian legal system is a civil law system. The...
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