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Law of Argentina

Required documentation

Required documentation Death certificate. Birth and or Marriage certificate, as the case may be. If any heir is dead, or there are more than one degree of kinship to evidence, all the relevant certificates (birth and death) will be needed. Names, Address, ID and Civil Status of all known heirs. Property titles. Power of attorney (if necessary). If any of these documents were issued in a foreign country, the relevant document/s must be apostilled / legalized and translated (by a chartered translator, and the translations must all be legalized by the translator’s bar) into Spanish if they were not in that language.

Types of inheritances

There are basically two different kinds of probate proceedings in Argentine: intestate successions, meaning successions in absence of a will (sucesiones ab intestato), and test...

Legal portion

The legitimate is an institute of inheritance law of public order, inalienable and inviolable. This is a portion of the estate of the deceased cannot be disposed of by a will. That means that none of the heirs can be deprived...