Morning all, i have a question. Again. We have UK wills, all good. Now, without going into the french succession fiasco and the European commission procrastination, my question simply is this: does this need to be stamped by the mairie ? Let’s just presume the EC finds in our favour, at which point our wills will be valid again. I’m off to change our marriage regime to communauté universelle, although our UK marriage is also registered in Germany, my birth country. I’m a dual. It’s jolly complicated… Old age sure keeps my brain fit…
Not sure what authority a marie would have over and above properly witnessed will? We have left our UK will alone (our French notaire advised us strongly not to have a French will given the circumstances). My reading of it is that as long as no one complains it should be ok.
Excellent, who would complain? The children?
Yes, the one that has been disenfranchised (possible under UK law). But since has not been in touch for 20 years the risk is hopefully small.
(And if it does happen I will be dead, so up to her sister to sort out,)
We made our wills in Ireland and our Notaire’s advice is similar, she just recommend that we formally register them here, and she can do that for us. We must get around to it 