I asked something similar previously, but I just want to clarify this.
This question reguards forign ownership of land and inheritance laws to a Dominican wife or a Forign national wife.
A previous post on inheritance stated that :
The distribution of assets would go something like this: 50% to the wife (if married under community property) and 50% to the children.
I don't quite understand what this means "if married under community property", so let me make a more specific question:
1) If I am not married US citizen, yet have a child and the mother both US citizens where I am not married to the woman. If I make a will in the US willing the ownership of the land to the mother either directly or as a trustee for the child, is this possible? Or do I need to :
1) Have a will in the DR stating this?
2) Is the assignment of the property to the woman and the child (even as forign nationals) automatic, as soon as they prove the child is my, and awarded according to the laws (50% for the mother, 50% for the child).
3) For land is it hard to have this kind of title transfer processed (once back taxes are paid, which I am aware of as an existing problem for any title transfer).
4) If I given item 2) (a mother and child living in the US) and a child born to a Dominican woman should I expect that both will be awarded 50% of the assets with 25% for each child and 25% for each mother?
5) Is there a waiting period for filing claims? I could imaging if I had a situation as stated in #4 where the dominican woman might try to process the death claim before the woman in the US could act and thereby award herself and her child 100% of the property.
Execpt for me having a child by a woman in the US, none of these situations exist yet, but I want to get a good idea of the laws in the DR as they currently stand. I don't know what might happen in the future, and would like to be prepared.
-Lee
PS: Again, to the legal gods of DR1 I thank you, and thank you in advance for any help you may provide. again . . . Thank you for everything and anything . . .
This question reguards forign ownership of land and inheritance laws to a Dominican wife or a Forign national wife.
A previous post on inheritance stated that :
The distribution of assets would go something like this: 50% to the wife (if married under community property) and 50% to the children.
I don't quite understand what this means "if married under community property", so let me make a more specific question:
1) If I am not married US citizen, yet have a child and the mother both US citizens where I am not married to the woman. If I make a will in the US willing the ownership of the land to the mother either directly or as a trustee for the child, is this possible? Or do I need to :
1) Have a will in the DR stating this?
2) Is the assignment of the property to the woman and the child (even as forign nationals) automatic, as soon as they prove the child is my, and awarded according to the laws (50% for the mother, 50% for the child).
3) For land is it hard to have this kind of title transfer processed (once back taxes are paid, which I am aware of as an existing problem for any title transfer).
4) If I given item 2) (a mother and child living in the US) and a child born to a Dominican woman should I expect that both will be awarded 50% of the assets with 25% for each child and 25% for each mother?
5) Is there a waiting period for filing claims? I could imaging if I had a situation as stated in #4 where the dominican woman might try to process the death claim before the woman in the US could act and thereby award herself and her child 100% of the property.
Execpt for me having a child by a woman in the US, none of these situations exist yet, but I want to get a good idea of the laws in the DR as they currently stand. I don't know what might happen in the future, and would like to be prepared.
-Lee
PS: Again, to the legal gods of DR1 I thank you, and thank you in advance for any help you may provide. again . . . Thank you for everything and anything . . .
