International legal peculiarities of the implementation of inheritance relationships
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https://doi.org/10.31617/3.2025(139)05Keywords:
inheritance relations with a foreign element, private law relations, public law relations, international multilateral regulation, international bilateral regulation, international law, international private law.Abstract
The features of the international organizational and legal regulation of inheritance relations complicated by a foreign element have been studied, in view of the interaction and mutual influence of certain aspects of the public and private law spheres. The issue is relevant due to the extent of the world migration processes occurring in the world, including those related to Ukraine, which is potentially one of the grounds for the emergence of mutual inheritance rights and inheritance relations complicated by foreign element. Due to the diversity and complexity of inheritance relations burdened with a foreign element, the organizational and legal features associated with them consist of private law and public law aspects, which are enshrined in numerous international and national sources. The international treaties regulating inheritance relations complicated by foreign element have been generalized and systematized in terms of spatial and substantive features, as well as the number of participants and content peculiarities; moreover, attention has been given to the validity of some of them for Ukraine. From the perspective of international and national support, as well as the interconnection of the public and private spheres, a comprehensive analysis has been performed on the correlation of individual aspects of inheritance relations with a foreign element and diplomatic and consular relations between states (if any) in the context of consular conventions (treaties). It is demonstrated how some national organizational and legal requirements for personal participation in certain stages of inheritance are related to the public legal sphere, namely to the conditions for the stay of foreigners in the territory of the state, visa / visa-free regime. A number of interrelated international treaties have been analysed, which regulate the requirements for granting official documents of one state legal validity in the territory of another by means of consular legalization, affixing an apostille, etc. In the context of inheritance relations with a foreign element, particular attention has been paid to agreements on legal assistance and legal relations in civil cases, as well as the role of consular institutions in this process.
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