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Property succession: A clear route map for foreign property inheritance by minors
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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- Chapman v Chapman [1954] UKHL 1
- Field v Moore (1855) 7 De G M & G 691
- Hays v Hays [2015] EWHC 3825 (Ch)
- Inwood v Twyne (1762) 2 Eden 148
- Re AC [2020] EWFC 90
- Re B (a child) [2022] EWFC 7; [2022] WTLR 409 FC
- Re Matouskova [2015] EUECJ C-404/14
- Re Shanavazi [2021] EWHC 1832 (Ch); [2021] WTLR 1037 ChD
- South Downs Trustees Ltd v GH & ors [2018] EWHC 1064 (Ch); [2018] WTLR 673 ChD