Conferința “Maintenance Instead of Compulsory Portion or Forced Heirship Towards a Reform of Mandatory Family Protection in the Law of Succession”

Facultatea de Drept a fost, în 17 octombrie 2025, gazda conferinței susținute de Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult Reinhard Zimmermann, Director emerit al Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Hamburg (Germania). Colegul nostru, o personalitate de nivel mondial și un excelent comparatist, a susținut o prelegere cu tema Maintenance instead of Compulsory Portion or Forced Heirship Towards a Reform of Mandatory Family Protection in the Law of Succession. În cadrul prelegerii au fost dezbătute mai multe teme (în engleză, în original): 1. Basic feature of the law of succession;  
2. Mandatory family protection in the law of succession; 3. Forced heirship in the French tradition;  4. Compulsory portion in the Austrian/German tradition; 5. The quest for flexibility; 
6. Family provision in the tradition of the common law countries; 7. Freedom of testation; 
8. Family property?;  
9. Solidarity?; 
10. Tradition?;  
11. Business claims against the deceased; 12. Maintenance claims;  13. What do parents owe their children?; 14. Succession to family firms; 15. Fixed quota systems: fraught with problems.