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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