Me. Yanis Bouktit, Notaire

Relationship with the deceased In the absence of a will, there is only one situation where your spouse inherits all of your property: if there are no parents, no siblings and no nephews and nieces in the picture (either they have predeceased you, or they have never existed). If you would like to leave your inheritance to your spouse only, then a will is necessary.

Relationship with the deceased In the absence of a will, your spouse and your children inherit in these proportions. If your children live in different parts of the world, or if there is conflict between them, then drafting a will would give power to one of them to act as an executor to settle the estate quickly and efficiently, to avoid further conflict. In the absence of a will, your children have to cooperate and sign together different types of legal documents, they might

Relationship with the deceased If you are married and have children (or in a common-law relationship and one of your children was born after June 2025), then in the absence of a will, your legal inheritors are YOUR SPOUSE FOR 1/3 and YOUR CHILDREN FOR 2/3. If your children are minors, they will be the outright owners of your real estate property, which will make it harder to sell (authorization from the court required, etc.); in the meanwhile, the surviving parent has to pay