Inheritance law-- challenges and reform
Subtitle: a Norwegian-German research seminar
By: Torstein Frantzen (ed.).
Series: Deutsch-norwegisches Forum des Rechts = Skriftserie for Tysk-Norsk rett = German-Norwegian law forum -- Bd. 9; Deutsch-norwegisches Forum des Rechts -- Bd. 9
Publisher: BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9783830531746
Subjects: Inheritance and succession
Description: Hauptbeschreibung In 2011 the Norwegian government appointed a Committee to prepare a proposal for a new inheritance act to replace the inheritance act of 1972. A German-Norwegian seminar on inheritance law took place in Bergen 2012 with a special attention to the ongoing reform of Norwegian inheritance law. The topics of the seminar were the protection of children and the surviving partner - both spouse and cohabitant. The seminar included presentations from scholars from both countries, each presented from a Norwegian and a German perspective. Several lectures also include a.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- Torstein Frantzen; title: Tendencies in European succession law  -- Walter Pintens; title: Reforming the Norwegian Inheritance Act  -- Torstein Frantzen; title: The legal protection of the surviving spouse : German law in comparative perspective  -- Anatol Dutta; title: The legal protection of the surviving spouse : Norwegian law  -- John Asland; title: Inheritance rights for cohabitants : current Norwegian law and some thoughts on future regulations  -- Thomas Eeg; title: Should the surviving cohabitant be given hereditary rights to the estate of the deceased? A European quest  -- Inge Kroppenberg; title: Limitations on the freedom of testation  -- Peter Hambro; title: The protection of children in German inheritance law -- Nina Dethloff.