This books offers an introduction to the world of estate planning through concrete stories and cases. Focus is on marital contracts, restructuring of company, real estate, donation, wills and desinheriting heirs, foundation, fiscal amnesty

This books offers an introduction to the world of estate planning through concrete stories and cases. Focus is on marital contracts, restructuring of company, real estate, donation, wills and desinheriting heirs, foundation, fiscal amnesty

This book offers an introduction in all specific contracts under Belgian Law. The three parts are built around the contracts of transferring property (with sale as main contract), enjoying property (with lease as main contract) and service contracts (with building contract and agency as main...

This book deals with serveral issues of sale of real estate under Belgian Law. It includes problems with hidden defects upon the sale of real estate, split purchase in usufruct and nude property and the many preferred purchase rights of the Flemish government

This is a substantial study on the application of participation clauses in Belgian law as corrective mechanism in a marital contract of separation of property. All aspects of both the redaction of the clause, with many variations and hypothetical options, as well as its civil and fiscal...

Dutch Abstract: In dit artikel leg ik uit hoe huwelijkscontracten naar Belgisch recht enorme kansen bieden voor creativiteit en partijautonomie. Na het uitleggen van de basisregels van de stelsels van gemeenschap van goederen en scheiding van goederen, ook met correctiemechanismen zoals deelname...

This article is the concluding chapter of the multi-disciplinary book on Imperative Inheritance Law in which several scholars have analyzed the issue from five different perspectives: anthropology of law, history of law, sociology of law, law and economics and comparative law. All five...

Interview with Netto De Tijd: In this interview I argue that Belgian inheritance law is outdated. A substantial reform is needed, not the small ad hoc changes that some politicians are envisaging. Forced heirship rules should be abolished. A distinction should be made between family property...

In this interview I comment, together with philosopher Koen Raes, on the social inequality that may arise because of the existing rules of inheritance law. I argue that the blood relationship is too strong to abolish this as a basic principle for inheritance law. However this is only valid for...