Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:47pm
I agree with all that has been said. Our Spanish solicitor advised that we needed a Spanish will, which our British solicitor confirmed.
We bought our place in February and our Spanish solicitor drew up mirror wills, leaving everything to each other and then to our children, This was set out in a document with the Spanish version on the right and English on the left.
We then visited the notary with an interpreter from our solicitor's office, when he read/summarised the wills to us and witnessed our signatures. The bill was 350€, 100€ of which was for the notary!
As a postscript, unless our children have a keen desire to take over the property and presuming we both don't have sudden deaths, our current plan is to hopefully sell before we pop our clogs so they aren't left with the headache of dealing with a property abroad.