As a result of the Australian Government acceding to the Convention Providing a Uniform Law on the Form of an International Will 1973, clients are now in a position to make a new form of will called an “international will". The benefit of making an international will is that it will be recognised as a valid form of will in the following countries: Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, some provinces in Canada, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Ecquador, France, Holy See, Iran, Italy, Laos, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Niger, Portugal, Russia, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, UK, US (not all States) and the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. The will be recognised no matter where the will has been made; the location of the assets; or where the deceased lived. Read more...
