Real Estate & Cross-Border Estate Review
Real estate and cross-border estates
How should people, assets, documents and procedures across several countries be coordinated?
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Working promise
An Asset × Country × Procedure map creates one coordination brief without trying to determine foreign law from a general article.
Formal documents are not offered as open templates. They are prepared or confirmed by the Dutch civil-law notary, lawyer, tax adviser or foreign counsel within their own remit.
What the family retains
Outputs that can be used in implementation
01Jurisdiction Matrix
02map of foreign assets and documents
03one brief for multiple advisers
04recognition and execution question list
Family decisions
VB does not choose the human outcome on behalf of the family.
- which countries and assets are in scope
- which family outcome must be preserved
- who coordinates the open questions
Implementation layer
What may require formal documentation
- Dutch and foreign wills
- choice-of-law provisions and European Certificate of Succession
- apostille, translation, POA and real-estate documents