Life file · 2025-12-23 · 6 minutes
An exclusion clause you ask the notary for
If you want a future gift, or what you leave, to remain the private property of your child and outside a community of property with a partner of that child, that clause belongs in a will. A sentence in the life file is not that clause. People often call this an exclusion clause (uitsluiting). You do not write the precise text and the scope yourself in this note. You note that you want to ask the notary whether an exclusion clause fits, and whether your will already contains one. With that you put the name of the notary if you have it, and the year of the deed if there is one. More text becomes a draft clause, and a draft clause in a shared file looks like a deed without being one.
The note reminds you to ask the question. It does not answer it. Do not write that the money therefore stays separate, or that the in-laws cannot get at it. That would be a promise this file does not make good. Until the notary has put the clause in a will, the reminder is only a reminder. If the clause already exists, you note where that deed is, not the full text, unless you want every invited reader to see it. The file records where it can be found and who may read this file. It appoints no heir and no executor. That appointment is in the notarial will, or it is not. This field does not fill that gap.
A codicil has its own, strictly handwritten form. Do not use this typed reminder as a substitute for the codicil, and do not use it as a substitute for the will. Do not email the reminder around as if it were the clause. Ervazo stores the answer you fill in and does not send it to the notary. You make the appointment, or you leave the reminder until you do. Once a year you look at whether the question is still open. If the deed has been passed before the notary, you replace the reminder with the place where it can be found and the year. If the wish has changed, you change the sentence, so that a reader does not think they see an old instruction. It remains a request to yourself to speak to the notary.
A life file is a note for later. It is not a will, not a medical instruction and not advice. The line about an exclusion clause (uitsluiting) asks you to speak to the notary. It does not keep a gift or an estate private and it appoints no one. The clause belongs in the notarial will. A handwritten codicil is a different document with its own form, and this note is not that document either. Ervazo sends nothing to a notary or a doctor. Until the deed exists, the wish remains an open question in your own file and not a fact for the family.