Full text of the paper:
Collected Papers of the Faculty of Law, University of Novi Sad
2019, vol. LIII, No. 4, pp. 1483–1502
Language of the paper: English
Overview paper
udk: 347.67(470:497.11)
doi: 10.5937/zrpfns53-23123
Author:
Bojana Arsenijević, Ph.D. Student
University of Niš
Faculty of Law Niš
bojana.arsa@yahoo.com
Abstract:
In the paper the author analyses the forms of wills in Russian law and the conditions for their legal validation. The domination of public form of a will is noticeable. Thus, the regulated forms of wills are the notarial will, the wills qualified as wills attested by a notary and the secret will. Since the Russian Federation has ratified the Convention providing a Uniform law on the Form of an International Will, Russian law regulates the international will as well. Bearing in mind the exceptional situations the citizen could find himself (herself), Russian legislator has regulated the handwritten will before witnesses, which is the only private form of a will in Russian law. The specific legal norms regulate testimonial dispositions of the monetary effectives at the banks or other credit organizations. The analysis of legal norms of Russian law provides the possibility to light on the similarities and distinctions between them and the comparative succession regulations of other European countries, and primary with the Serbian succession law.
Keywords:
Russian law, Serbian law, form of a will, the conditions for legal validation.