The Settlors’ Choice of Law in Italian-American Cross-Border Successions

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In the area of estate planning, common law jurisdictions typically afford much more discretion to the individual to design a scheme of distribution. Conversely, civil law systems (such as Italy’s) have statutes that tend to be long, detailed, and allow for less discretion on the part of the settlor and the court. In Italy, statutes […]