Brussels, 26/07/2012 (Agence Europe) - The European regulation simplifying cross-border succession and finally adopted last month is to take effect on 27 July, the Commission states in a press release with publication in the EU Official Journal. The regulation aims to avoid the legal headache suffered by heirs upon the death of a family member owning goods or property in a country of the EU other than his/her own. It is estimated that the new rules will concern around 450,000 families...