Trusts & Trustees Advance Access originally published online on March 25, 2009
Trusts & Trustees 2009 15(3):178-180; doi:10.1093/tandt/ttp018
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© The Author (2009). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
Offshore: Jersey
*Marc Guillaume, Senior Associate, Ogier, Whiteley Chambers, Don Street, Jersey. Tel: +44 (0)1534 504000; Email: Marc.Guillaume@ogier.com.
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This section compares law and practice of various jurisdictions in particular areas. We use the Q&A format familiar to readers of the World Trust Survey, but the In Focus section asks for more detailed answers than in the Survey. For 2009 the subject is succession, looking particularly at applicable laws, conflict of laws, forced heirship rights and the division of community property from an onshore perspective and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in relation to forced heirship, matrimonial property and foreign community property from an offshore perspective. In this issue we deal with the onshore position in Italy and the offshore position in Jersey.
| 1. Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments |
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- Will foreign community of property and/or forced heirship rights be recognized
Despite Jersey not itself being a jurisdiction which has a community of property regime, unless the assets concerned were held subject to the
| 2. Extent of application of law of Jersey to creation, etc. of a trust |
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