Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2020 6:57pm
If you want to be absolutely safe you should have a new will drawn up - you can keep all the terms of your old one but have the following put in.. It cannot be done as a codicle but must be a new will
"Que
desea que, en todo cuanto sea posible, su sucesión hereditaria se rija
por su ley personal actualmente aplicable, que es la determinada por
su nacionalidad, conforme a la cual, según declara, ostenta la plena
libertad de disponer sin limitaciones de su patrimonio mediante
testamento. Yo, el notario, advierto expresamente al testador de que si,
por el cambio de sus circunstancias personales o por la aplicación de
normas imperativas de derecho internacional privado, su sucesión
hereditaria hubiera de regirse finalmente por un ordenamiento jurídico
que implicara el reconocimiento de derechos legitimarios a favor de los
llamados herederos forzosos, todas o algunas de las disposiciones del
presente testamento podrían devenir ineficaces.
Que, en
ejercicio de la plena libertad de disponer de su patrimonio mediante
testamento que, según declara, le otorga su ley personal, ordena su
última voluntad con sujeción a las siguientes .....
In English this says,
That
it is his desire that, as far as possible, his inheritance be
governed by his own personal law, currently applicable, which is that
determined by his Nationality in accordance with which, as he
declares, he enjoys complete freedom to dispose of his estate by will
without limitation. I, the Notary, expressly advise the testator
that if through a change in his personal circumstances or through the
application of the compulsory rules of international civil law, his
estate should finally be governed by a legal ruling which would imply
recognising the legitimate rights in favour of some relatives
considered to be enforced inheritors, all or some of the provisions of
this present will would become void.
That in carrying out
his full right to freely dispose of his estate by will which, as
he declares, is granted to him by his national law, he orders.....
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