Der Erwerb von Todes wegen mittels US-amerikanischer will substitutes

“Avoid Probate!” In accordance with this motto, the majority of U.S. decedents’ assets are today passed on death outside of the estate. This is made possible by the use of the so-called will substitutes, which this book deals with in detail. After an introduction to the main features of the law of succession and probate proceedings in the U.S. states and an in-depth presentation of the phenomenon of will substitutes, the focus is on the questions of how these legal figures fit into the system of the European and autonomous German conflict of laws rules and to what extent they affect any rights of (co-)heirs, forced heirs, contractual heirs or contractual legatees and estate creditors existing under the law governing the succession.