Huwelijksvoordelen: Een Tweede Antwerps Mijlpaalarrest (Marital Advantages. A second Antwerp Milestone Judgment)

in TEP - Tijdschrift Estate Planning - Estate Planning Journal, pp. 279-286., 2008

Posted: 16 Oct 2011

See all articles by Alain-Laurent Verbeke

Alain-Laurent Verbeke

KU Leuven - Faculty of Law; Harvard Law School; KU Leuven - Faculty of Psychology; Tilburg Law School

Date Written: October 6, 2008

Abstract

In this paper I comment on the Antwerp Court of Appeal judgment on marital advantages in community property regimes (after the 2004 judgment in separation of property regimes), approving the consistent theory that the Court is developing. I also argue that all transfers between spouses through the marital contract or regime are marital advantages. Some of them are perfect or full advantages, immune for the forced heirship rules. Others, going beyond the "cap" of articles 1464 and 1465 of the Belgian Civil Code are imperfect advantages, that must be accounted on the fictive hereditary mass and that may be reduced because of forced heirship protection.

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Keywords: Marital Advantage, Community Property, Forced Heirship

JEL Classification: K11, K12

Suggested Citation

Verbeke, Alain-Laurent P. G., Huwelijksvoordelen: Een Tweede Antwerps Mijlpaalarrest (Marital Advantages. A second Antwerp Milestone Judgment) (October 6, 2008). in TEP - Tijdschrift Estate Planning - Estate Planning Journal, pp. 279-286., 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1939757

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