Cross-border family and financial ties
Helps you manage family, legal and financial ties across borders.
Manage the ties that stay across borders over the long term: wills, inheritance and its tax, family law between countries, foreign pensions, caring for relatives abroad and home-country obligations.
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Wills and estate planning
You will know whether your current will works in Spain, which law and regional rules will decide your estate, and what to set up before something happens.
Do you need a Spanish will if you have one at home? · Will your home-country will be valid and usable in Spain? · Wills registry (Registro de Actos de Última Voluntad) and will types
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6 more topics in this section, about 6.5 hours of reading in all.
Settling an inheritance in Spain
You will know the order of steps, what you can do from abroad, what can go wrong and what it will cost and take.
Settling an estate in Spain step by step · Does Spain have executors (albaceas)? · Inheriting with no will in Spain (declaración de herederos)
Inheritance and gift tax in Spain
You will understand what tax is likely due, which region's rules apply, when to file and how to avoid being taxed twice.
How Spanish inheritance and gift tax works · How inheritance tax differs between Spanish regions · Inheritance tax when the heir or the deceased lives outside Spain
Family law between countries
You will know which country's courts and law apply to your family situation, what Spain recognises and what to do before acting.
Getting a foreign marriage recognised in Spain · Where can you divorce when spouses live in different countries? · How divorce works in Spain for foreign couples
Foreign pensions and proof of life
You will know how to claim a foreign pension from Spain, keep it paid without interruption and what to do when something goes wrong.
Claiming your home-country state pension from Spain · Will your foreign state pension keep rising while you live in Spain? · Proof of life for foreign pensions: who can sign in Spain
Caring for relatives abroad
You will have a practical plan for supporting relatives abroad and know what to do when an emergency happens.
Your parents are ageing abroad while you live in Spain · Arranging care for a parent in another country from Spain · Managing a relative's money and paperwork from Spain
Home-country obligations while abroad
You will know which home-country duties continue, which ties to keep or close and what can go wrong.
Home-country tax returns you may still owe while living in Spain · Passports, consulates and home documents from Spain · Keeping or renting out a home-country property from Spain
Other sections in Long-term settlement and leaving
Aging, retirement, and long-term care
Helps you plan ageing, long-term care and end-of-life matters in Spain.
Return, onward move, and exit planning
Helps you leave Spain or move within it cleanly.
Long-term identity and belonging
Helps you decide what long-term belonging in Spain means for you.
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