Anonymous wrote:You always need a local lawyers. Always. In some countries it’s illegal to take more than a few thousand dollars out of the country at all! You need an expert in local requirements.

No way. Much better to ask for advice from randoms on DCUM, and not even name the country!

You always need a local lawyers. Always. In some countries it’s illegal to take more than a few thousand dollars out of the country at all! You need an expert in local requirements.

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Anonymous wrote:Son is a US citizen? Have him contact the American Citizen Services section of the US embassy there (we'll assume there is an embassy there -- you're not mentiong the country which is unhelpful) and ask for a referral to a lawyer who handles land stuff. They'll know the ones there who speak English.

When the mother dies, the lawyer finds a local real estate agent to handle the sale. The son comes for closing. If it's a county where banking with the US is restricted (again, this is why we need to know the country!), then have him get a notarized translation into English of the sale documents, and have him carry the cash (converted to USD) back to the US. He needs to declare it along the way but his sale documents will show that it's not dirty money.

You can't carry cash back, he's better off having it wired into his bank account. Again assuming it's in a country that has ties with the US. So we need to know the country.

You absolutely can carry cash back. You just need to declare it coming in, and often going out. I'd only go this route if wiring is not an option.. which is why we need to know the country.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw your update but I still think you need to list the country

What update ???

Never mind. I see the post.

Actually, OP never updated.

The post that begins "OP:" is just a post addressing & directed to the OP, not a post made by OP.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw your update but I still think you need to list the country

What update ???

Never mind. I see the post.

Anonymous wrote:I saw your update but I still think you need to list the country

What update ???

Nice round of guessing game. Without naming the country, most advice is pointless..

I saw your update but I still think you need to list the country

I misread OP as "Inheriting an Obscure Country".

Carry on.

OP: I am familiar with unusual requirements in a couple of countries regarding inheritances involving real estate (vacant land, homes, condos). Tell your relatives to start the process now before the grantor or intestate owner dies or becomes legally incapacitated.

Also, in contested situations between a blood relative in line of intestate succession or inheritance by legal document beneficiary and a stranger/non-relative who claims property rights, you may have to sell your rights to folks with connections or other source of power who can resolve matters quickly; otherwise it can take many years and lots of money to try to resolve the matter in your favor. Some countries have laws that are very weird compared to typical US property & estate/inheritance laws.

Anonymous wrote:Son is a US citizen? Have him contact the American Citizen Services section of the US embassy there (we'll assume there is an embassy there -- you're not mentiong the country which is unhelpful) and ask for a referral to a lawyer who handles land stuff. They'll know the ones there who speak English.

When the mother dies, the lawyer finds a local real estate agent to handle the sale. The son comes for closing. If it's a county where banking with the US is restricted (again, this is why we need to know the country!), then have him get a notarized translation into English of the sale documents, and have him carry the cash (converted to USD) back to the US. He needs to declare it along the way but his sale documents will show that it's not dirty money.

You can't carry cash back, he's better off having it wired into his bank account. Again assuming it's in a country that has ties with the US. So we need to know the country.

If it doesn't have ties with the US, another country will have a special interest section that handles US services, often the Swiss or Brits or Germans.

Son is a US citizen? Have him contact the American Citizen Services section of the US embassy there (we'll assume there is an embassy there -- you're not mentiong the country which is unhelpful) and ask for a referral to a lawyer who handles land stuff. They'll know the ones there who speak English.

When the mother dies, the lawyer finds a local real estate agent to handle the sale. The son comes for closing. If it's a county where banking with the US is restricted (again, this is why we need to know the country!), then have him get a notarized translation into English of the sale documents, and have him carry the cash (converted to USD) back to the US. He needs to declare it along the way but his sale documents will show that it's not dirty money.

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I don’t think the issue is country specific. What matters is that:
-foreigners who don’t speak the language need a guide to be able to get around, unless one is super adventurous/sophisticated which this young man is not;
- legal issues need to be taken care of (inheriting and/or selling and then banking the money before transferring them) and it requires at least basic knowledge of the local language or again, a guide.

The mom has friends there but they are her age. Their kids don’t know the young man that well, and most of them don’t speak English that well. She has relatives and friends in the US as well, but again they are her age and who knows if they’ll be able to accompany her son to the funeral?

That is unbelievably ignorant.

Do you really think inheritance laws are the same in all countries? If you do, stay out of it.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, I don’t think the issue is country specific. What matters is that:
-foreigners who don’t speak the language need a guide to be able to get around, unless one is super adventurous/sophisticated which this young man is not;
- legal issues need to be taken care of (inheriting and/or selling and then banking the money before transferring them) and it requires at least basic knowledge of the local language or again, a guide.

The mom has friends there but they are her age. Their kids don’t know the young man that well, and most of them don’t speak English that well. She has relatives and friends in the US as well, but again they are her age and who knows if they’ll be able to accompany her son to the funeral?

This tells me all that I need to know about you. Stay out of this matter as your thought that inheriting property in any country is not country specific shows a lack of real-world business acumen.

As well as a total lack of commonsense.

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I don’t think the issue is country specific. What matters is that:
-foreigners who don’t speak the language need a guide to be able to get around, unless one is super adventurous/sophisticated which this young man is not;
- legal issues need to be taken care of (inheriting and/or selling and then banking the money before transferring them) and it requires at least basic knowledge of the local language or again, a guide.

The mom has friends there but they are her age. Their kids don’t know the young man that well, and most of them don’t speak English that well. She has relatives and friends in the US as well, but again they are her age and who knows if they’ll be able to accompany her son to the funeral?

This tells me all that I need to know about you. Stay out of this matter as your thought that inheriting property in any country is not country specific shows a lack of real-world business acumen.