A home across the border is a second file

A house in Belgium or Germany is not simply an extra line under the Dutch home. It is a second file, with a local deed, a local body and often a local tax. The Dutch inheritance-tax figures do not decide that component. Ask the notary which documents are needed in the Netherlands and which question must be put in the other country. Note the address, the cadastral number if you have it, and the name of the foreign contact. Keep the correspondence apart from the Dutch letters, so that periods do not run through each other.

A Dutch death certificate is often needed, but rarely sufficient. The other country can ask for a translation or for a return of its own. Which form that is, the foreign notary or the body there says, not a Dutch leaflet. Do not invent a rate and do not invent an exemption for that country. Put in the task only what that source has asked for, with the date of the request. A Dutch WOZ assessment says nothing about a foreign house; the local valuation is the source for that property.

The executorship in the Netherlands and the winding-up in the other country can run side by side. Agree with the Dutch notary who conducts the foreign contact. If a family member on the spot has keys or collects the post, record what that person forwards. That person does not thereby become authorised to sell or to let. Decisions about a sale belong in an instruction that the authorised person signs. Until then you keep quotations and local tax assessments as documents, not as a done deal.

A bank account abroad belongs with the same question. You do not release a balance there with only the Dutch certificate of inheritance, unless that bank expressly accepts that document. Ask which documents they want and keep the reply. You book the costs of a translation with the invoice. Whether those costs fall on the whole estate inventory or on this component, the notary classifies. Note the amount in the currency as it stands on the document, and do not invent an exchange rate for as long as a bank statement does not show that rate.

Heirs in the other country sometimes have different information from the Dutch circle. Do not send them a draft of the Dutch division as if it also applies there. Share facts: that the person has died, who conducts the contact in the Netherlands, and that the figures are not yet settled. A dispute about which law applies you record as a question for the notary, not as a conclusion in the file. Software does not choose a legal system. A task with the question and the date of the consultation is enough until the notary puts the direction on paper.

This is an administrative checklist, not legal advice. The notary, the bank or the body concerned decides what this file needs and in which order. Ervazo keeps the tasks, the letters and the recorded values. The program does not send the letters, does not pay any debts and does not file a return. For each step, note the date, the person and the document you have received. What is still missing stays an open task. A ticked line means only that the administration has been updated. Keep the foreign house apart and do not take over a Dutch tax figure as a substitute.