Out Now: Checa Martínez, Instituciones de estate planning y Derecho internacional privado patrimonial (Marcial Pons 2026)

Miguel Checa Martínez (Kinship Regulation) has kindly shared the next abstract of his newest publication on ‘Instituciones de property planning y Derecho internacional privado patrimonial’ with us.

This monograph constitutes the primary systematic therapy in Spain of worldwide property planning from the attitude of patrimonial non-public worldwide legislation. Conceived for practitioners advising globally cellular households and cross-border wealth constructions, the work provides a rigorous comparative evaluation—significantly attentive to Anglo-American authorized programs—of the authorized devices accessible to protect, construction, and switch household wealth effectively throughout generations.

The research opens with an examination of the classical connecting components that decide private standing in non-public worldwide legislation—nationality, recurring residence, and domicile—and explores their sensible implications in cross-border planning. It proceeds to handle the preventive safety of susceptible adults by means of enduring powers of legal professional and associated mechanisms, in addition to the safeguarding of minors’ patrimonial pursuits.

A considerable portion of the e-book is dedicated to matrimonial property regimes and their distinction from the monetary penalties of divorce. By comparative evaluation, with specific emphasis on English and U.S. legislation, the creator examines the interplay between these classes and the preventive structuring instruments accessible to spouses, together with marital agreements and prenuptial preparations, as key devices of wealth preservation.

At its core, the monograph offers an in-depth research of succession planning methods. It distinguishes between lifetime planning units—corresponding to inter vivos items and trusts—and testamentary inclinations, together with practical equivalents to wills (will-like units). Particular consideration is given to the conflict-of-laws options provided by Regulation (EU) 650/2012 on worldwide successions, significantly the position of the professio iuris and its potential to coordinate common and territorially restricted wills inside a coherent cross-border technique.

The ultimate chapter addresses property administration, specializing in the anticipatory design of executorial constructions inside the will, the appointment and affirmation of executors beneath Anglo-American probate procedures, and their capability to behave in respect of property situated in Spain.

Total, the work provides a complete and technically refined framework for worldwide property planning, positioning patrimonial non-public worldwide legislation as a central self-discipline for the structuring of world household wealth.

Extra info is out there on the writer’s web site.