General planning information. Family circumstances do not replace the wording of documents, titles, and current law.
An international estate can involve multiple succession systems, tax regimes, languages, probate courts, and asset-custody rules.
People and promises to put on paper
- A coordinated plan identifies which jurisdiction controls each asset and avoids documents that accidentally revoke one another.
Assets and authority to coordinate
- all citizenships, residences, domiciles, and family-status documents
- asset-by-country list, foreign wills, trusts, entities, and adviser contacts
Conflict-prevention questions
- Which law and court control each asset?
- Do the documents contain express limits preventing unintended cross-revocation?
Risks to pause on
- One worldwide will drafted without foreign review can conflict with local forced-heirship, form, tax, or registry rules.