Research Article

INHERITANCE PROCEDURE AND REGULATION OF INHERITANCE PROCEDURE WITH A FOREIGN ELEMENT IN REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA

ABSTRACT

The right to inherit is one of the most important human rights because through it are being transferred the ownership from the deceased to his heirs. The property also is considered as one of the fundamental human rights and as a fundamental value in the constitutional order of one country. In the Constitution of the Republic of North Macedonia the right to protect the ownership is raised as one of the most important values with which is guaranteed the right of ownership for every citizen. The meaning of inheritance is that it provides us with property security in the family, in the marital community also, and that everything that is gained within one family after the death of the testator/deceased will remain in the circle of that family. That is also the importance of civil law and inheritance law as part of it, everyone to be secured and to give security of the family as a basic cell in a society, to provide the existence of all members in the marital and family community. The topic of this paper is about the inheritance rights, subjects, inheritance in international aspect, and it will cover all the aspects related to them. So, in this paper the articles that regulates the inheritance procedure will be subject of analysis, especially those of Law on non-contentious procedure which regulates the inheritance procedure and a special attention will also be paid to the inheritance procedure for deciding about the inheritance property, where the international element is present.

Keywords

Inheritance procedure Inheritance procedure subjects Law on non-contentious procedure International inheritance procedure Notary public