The book on inheritance that crosses borders.
An editorial-legal guide on how to handle international estates across Argentina, Italy and Spain.
Legados Cruzando Fronteras.
How to handle international inheritance across Argentina, Italy and Spain. 18 chapters, practical cases, up-to-date law.
Written in Spanish. An Italian edition is under editorial review.
Table of contents.
- Opening the file. Where to start when there is a decedent and assets to transfer.
- Assets in Argentina, heirs abroad. Coordinating the jurisdictions when the heirs are not in the country.
- Wills and cross-border validation. Recognition of wills executed abroad.
- Italian succession law. Applicable legal frameworks and points of contact with Argentina.
- Spanish succession law. Particularities of the regional regime and of forced heirship.
- Conflicts of jurisdiction. Which court has jurisdiction and why it matters to decide early.
- Essential documentation. The file that opens the doors of any public office.
- Apostille, translation, legalisation. The journey of a document from one jurisdiction to another.
- Declaration of heirs. The technical step that defines who the successors are.
- Inventory and valuation of assets. Mapping the estate when there are assets in several countries.
- Taxes and costs compared. A clear view of the succession tax burden in each jurisdiction.
- Cross-border real estate. The typical case: one house there, another one here.
- Bank accounts abroad. How to identify, unfreeze and transfer financial assets.
- Family businesses and shareholdings. Continuity and reorganisation of the business during the succession.
- Disputes between co-heirs. Mediation and litigation strategies when agreement does not arrive.
- The role of the coordinating lawyer. Why a single professional must hold the coherence of the file.
- Annotated practical cases. Five real files (anonymised) and their lessons.
- Closing and distribution. The moment the succession ends: registrations, deliveries, archive.
Who is this book for?
Families with assets in Argentina
Facing or anticipating a succession with heirs outside the country.
Heirs in Italy
Who need to articulate the Argentine procedure with the Italian one.
Heirs in Spain
To understand the points of contact between the jurisdictions.
Legal professionals
Lawyers, notaries and accountants who receive queries on cross-border cases.
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2026 edition · 240 pages · Softcover and digital format.
Written in Spanish. An Italian edition is under editorial review.
Buy nowExcerpt (translated from the Spanish original).
Someone has died. There is a house in Argentina, an apartment in Rome and heirs in Madrid. The question is not whether the case can be started — it is where to begin and how to coordinate two jurisdictions without the file contradicting itself. This book tries to answer that question, chapter by chapter, in the voice of someone who works on it every day.