Inheritance

According to current Danish rules, the estate of a deceased Danish person shall be administered in the country in which the deceased was a resident at the time of death. Consequently, a Danish probate court has only jurisdiction to administer the estate of a deceased person provided the deceased was a resident in Denmark.

According to the Danish Ministry of Justice, a person is a resident of the country in which the person concerned or the household of the person concerned has their permanent home, where their possessions are normally situated, and where the person resides except for when the person concerned resides temporarily elsewhere for special reasons (for example due to leisure, study or business travel, illness, or the serving of a prison sentence).

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