Abroad in the life file

If something is abroad, it goes into the life file as a place where it can be found. A house, an account or family. You note the country, and the place if that helps. For a house you write where the papers are, such as a purchase deed or a folder, and the name of a contact on the spot with a telephone number. For an account the name of the bank and where the latest statement is, not a balance you hope for. For family a name and a number of the person who can point to the papers. The line is a map. It does not establish which law of which country will have something to say later. You leave that question open. The country and the folder are what you know now.

No foreign tax figures. No rate, no exemption, no estimated amount of tax and no comparison with a Dutch sum. Those figures do not belong in this file and you do not invent them. Write that the papers are in that country and with whom you can request them. You name an adviser on the spot with a name and a number if you have one. You do not copy a calculation that someone once put on a slip of paper. An empty field for tax is the right state here. The house or the account remains a fact with a country and a place where it can be found. You name a document as the place where it is, not as a result you work out yourself.

Here too, no passwords and no login for a foreign bank or a foreign government. Those keys do not belong in a note that invited readers see. DigiD and Dutch government accounts remain personal and likewise do not go into the text, not even if you use them to follow a form. The sealed list, if it exists, you name only with the person who may open it. If you sell the house or close the account, you remove the line or you add the date of the sale. An address that is no longer yours makes a later record start in the wrong country. Ervazo stores the countries and the folders and does not send them to a notary, here or elsewhere.

A life file is a note for later. It is not a will, not a medical instruction and not advice. The line about abroad points to a country and a folder. It appoints no heir and no executor and it does not transfer the house. That appointment belongs in a notarial will, if you want it. A codicil has its own, strictly handwritten form and is not this map. Ervazo does not send the note to a doctor or a notary. Tax of another country stays outside the text. What is there and where the papers are is the whole content of the line.