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Contents of Laws

-Everyone- Laws (7)
Private executor - Universal executor of delivery of goods - Fourth Falcidia - Successions in Catalonia - Exemplary substitution - Trustee substitution - Trustee Substitution of Waste -

Private executor See file

The testator grants specific powers to the designated person. ...
It is the trusted person of the testator, who can only run acts in which the testator has empowered him to do so, and failing that, the faculties  pointed out legally. Succession figure regulated in article 429-12CCCat.   Source: Inheritance Law of Catalonia by Javier Gómez Taboada
 BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia

Universal executor of delivery of goods See file

Powers acquired by the person who is instituted executor....
Schools acquired by the person who is instituted executor to: pay debts and inheritance charges and taxes caused by the succession, fulfill the legacies and otherss provisions testamentary, pedit the fulfillment of the ways, pay the legitimate ones, carry out the acts of monetary realization established by article 429-9 CCCat to the extent necessary to make the payments referred to in the letters to) a d) and those of the corresponding expenses. The challenge of these device acts does not affect their validity against third party purchasers in good faith. In default that the testator has appointed a counter splitter, the executor will practice the partition of the inheritance in the case of the hereditary community.    Source: Inheritance Law of Catalonia by Javier Gómez Taboada
 BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia

Fourth Falcidia See file

Right that the Law attributes to the heir when he sees his patrimonial benefit diminished or flooded because of the legacies that he is obliged to satisfy....
Considering this circumstance, the heir has the right to obtainner a quarter of the hereditary patrimony, even when obtaining it implies the reduction or suppression of legacies. As it is not a mandatory law, the heir has the power to exclude himself by the will of the testator, and waive this right.    Source: Inheritance Law of Catalonia by Javier Gómez Taboada
 BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia

Successions in Catalonia See file

The inheritance and gift tax in Catalonia has its own regulations....
This regulation is complementary to the regulation of the Spanish State since we are facing a ceded Tax. This regulation has been modified in the month of May 2020.
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Exemplary substitution See file

It is the will of the incapacitated descendant made by the ascendant, and includes, in addition to the assets of the testator, those of the incapacitated person who has not made a will or succession agreement....
Exemplary substitution seeks to avoid intestate succession of the legally incapacitated person (Article 425-10 CCCat). This will be ineffective if the incapacitated person had granted a will or inheritance agreement, or if the disabled stop being.    Source: Catalan inheritance law of Javier Gomez Taboada. Editorial Lex Nova, SA
 BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia

Trustee substitution See file

Appointment of a second heir to later succeed the first. ...
It is intended to maintain the trust patrimony, designating a second heir so that this happen al primer heir. The will of the settlor testator is fix a commission tol trustee (first heir), for later succeeded by other heirs who would be the substitute trustees. To ensure the conservation of the goods and their substitute transit, the general rule is that the trustee does not have the power to provision (except for assessed exceptions), only enjoyment being possible of the thing. Regulated regime in art. 426-1 of CCCat.   Source: Catalan inheritance law of Javier Gomez Taboada. Editorial Lex Nova, SA
 BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia

Trustee Substitution of Waste See file

The institution of the trust supposes the existence of two holders. The first, called trustee, is a temporary or conditional holder, while the second, the trustee, is the ultimate beneficial owner. The residue trust is the one that by Law or Act of the testator, the trustee can dispose of the assets of the trust inter vivos and onerously. Source: Catalan inheritance law of Javier Gomez Taboada. Editorial Lex Nova, SA BOE - Book IV Civil Code of Catalonia


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