Cross-Border Estates Special Interest Group (C-BEG)
The STEP Cross-Border
Estates Group (C-BEG) was founded in 2004 at the instigation
of Richard Frimston of Russell-Cooke LLP. Its area of
reference is the domain of estate planning and the administration
of estates/successions across national borders. It focuses on
reconciling divergent inheritance rules between civil code
jurisdictions, between a civil code approach and a common law
approach and between such systems and others such as Shari'a.
This Special Interest Group
has to date focused on providing seminars on both tax and
'civil' topics surrounding such conflicts of law issues,
touching on marriage, death, divorce and property law
questions. C-BEG continues to follow the Brussels legislation
process and the passage of the proposed Brussels III
and Brussels IV Regulations.