Description
Get detailed insight into issues that arise from cross-border estate and succession planning.
This Advanced Certificate can be taken as part of the STEP Diploma.
The course will explore the issues that advisers need to consider when advising clients with a cross-border aspect to their estate.
- Efficient cross-border estate administration: Learn how to administer a cross-border estate efficiently, encompassing various legal systems and considering issues of property, intestacy, and conventions.
- Cross-jurisdictional expertise: Appreciate fundamental differences between common law, civil law, and Shariah law systems, providing insights into their approaches to succession and family matters.
- Practical application skills: Acquire hands-on knowledge to advise on the practical application of EU Regulation 650/2012 and understand approaches in non-bound jurisdictions.
- Tax regime proficiency: Understand tax regimes across different jurisdictions and their impact on the estate, including the effects of applicable tax treaties on investments.
- Build valuable connections: Network with like-minded professionals in varied roles and firms from all over the world.
- Industry recognition: Awarded in association with Alliance Manchester Business School, a School of the University of Manchester.
What you will learn
- Factors to consider when resolving issues of conflict of foreign laws
- Differences between common law, civil law and Sharia law systems
- How to apply the concepts of habitual residence, domicile and nationality
- The concept of renvoi and its application
- How assets devolve under different systems, considering intestacy and application of relevant conventions and regulations
- How marriage and registered partnerships, adoption and surrogacy can affect succession
- The tax regimes adopted in different jurisdictions
- The effect of any applicable tax treaties on any investments held by the deceased
- How to administer a cross-border estate in practice
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