Inheritance Law Queries

The post on Inheritance Law was taken from The Connexion Newspaper, who in July are doing an in depth look at this question with two legal experts answering readers questions. One of our readers says he has checked with a lawyer in England and they were unsure if this story was valid. I will keep researching and update information as it appears. I googled 'Council of the European Union, Inheritance Law' and quite a lot of stuff comes up all confirming this law has been passed. One lawyer in England says it still needs to be confirmed but as there was no date on his post I was not clear if this was an old posting. However as we still have to wait till 2015 before it comes in to play we have time to discover the reality. There is a lot of interest in this story as it affects many of us wishing to have control of our estates, as in English law. We know of many people especially second marriages that when one partner dies , the other partner has had to split the estate with children. We know of two couples who thought it was all cut and dried only too late to discover French Inheritance Law over ruled. We will keep following the news on this one.