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Helping lawyers with Swedish estates

Simon Dicksved explains the Swedish questions he can help foreign lawyers identify when an estate involves assets or documents in more than one country.

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What I can support and provide when it comes to cross-border estates, it is related to Sweden naturally.

It is actually how we have and how we actually look in Sweden on the birth rights actually, and how those play out in relationship to, to, to the American assets or, or the UK will which has created a trust, for instance.

Um, because we have very strong birth rights which is connected to Swedish Inheritance Act, and those actually needs to be somehow recognized and dealt with i-in, in a situation where you actually can find a good solution to those specific provisions whi-which we have in the Act.

And, um, just in order for the each beneficiary, each heir to have actually go in and to see how can I actually withdraw any money from the Swedish part of the estate and transfer those abroad, uh, without actually, um, interfering with the birth rights that are so common and which are a-also nee- which each, each administrator of an estate actually needs to look into and deal with.

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