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• Claims for legal fees not recoverable in probate and enforcement proceedings

  23-47

  Tibor Kiss

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  360

  In practice, we often encounter cases where the court in charge does not recognise the legal representation provided during the non-litigation proceedings at the stage of the judicial remedy as a service that can be remunerated with attorney's fees and takes the position that the party is obliged to bear the costs incurred in this respect and cannot pass them on to the opposing party. The paper explores these anomalies in the context of the judicial remedies in relation to the notarial probate proceedings and enforcement proceedings by bailiffs as civil non-contentious proceedings, focusing on judicial practice. The author's aim is to explore whether the current approach of the judiciary is in line with the relevant existing legal provisions or whether there is a misinterpretation of the law.

• The legal basis and the conduct of probate proceeding, particularly the distribution of the tasks in the proceeding and some of the possibilities of appeal

  22-31

  Fanni Ferenczi

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  216

  As the title suggest, the study intends to provide a summarized overview on the regulation of probate proceeding. The legal nature of out-of-court proceeding and the various stages of the procedure are briefly presented in this study. The procedural steprelated to the task of inventory taking and each stage of the proceeding related to the notary public are explained too. Finally, the study includes an overview of the available remedies (like the certain aspects of appeal and the possibility of retrial) and the basic rules on enforcement of inheritance claims.

• Fragmentation and changes in Hungarian succession law

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  Tibor Kiss

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  394

  The right to inherit is recognized in the Fundamental Law, the detailed substantive legal rules are laid down in the Seventh Book of the Civil Code. In recent years, the legislator has formulated rules of substantive succession in other legislation beyond our private law code (the Civil Code). According to the Registered Partnership Act, the rules applicable to the spouse apply mutatis mutandis to the registered partner, which means that the registered partner is also a legal heir. The special rules for the acquisition of ownership of agricultural and forestry land by succession by will are laid down in the Land Traffic Act (Act CXXII of 2013). On 1 January 2023, a new law will enter into force (Act CXLIII of 2021), which will supplement the succession law provisions of the Civil Code in the case of joint legal intestate succession of undivided common ownership of agricultural land by several heirs. The designation of a public body to represent the State in succession matters is provided for in a separate ministerial decree. The present article analyzes how all these complex, fragmented regulations make it difficult to enforce the law and the extent to which it hinders the speedy execution of probate proceedings. The present article criticizes the fragmented regulation and proposes the integration of the rules of the separate laws into the Civil Code, as this could contribute to a more efficient application of the law.