Beginner
Module 9: Cohabitation, Divorce and Inheritance Law
7 lessons40 min
Create an account to start Two of the biggest events in a person's life have an enormous financial impact: love (cohabiting or marrying) and death (inheritance). In this module we dissect the legal rules surrounding relationships, the division of pension on divorce and the workings of Dutch inheritance law. You will learn whose money it actually is, who gets the house and the pension on a divorce, and what happens to your assets and your debts when you die.
Modules
01
Relationships, divorce and bequeathing
- 01Forms of relationship: whose money is it?
- 02Married before 1 January 2018: general community of property
- 03Married after 1 January 2018: limited community of property
- 04Divorce and pension (the Wet VPS)
- 05Inheritance law (when there is no will)
- 06Why make a will?
- 07Potentially ruinous: accepting or rejecting an inheritance