OKSANA VIKTORIVNA KOROTIUK

Notary Private of Kyiv City Notarial District, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Member of Methodological Council for Notariat at Main Department of Justice in Kyiv City

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Certificate of Right to Engage in Notarial Activities

No.8188 dated 02.04.2010, Registration Certificate

No.1171 dated 07.10.2010

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You can apply to Notary O.V. Korotiuk for performance of notarial acts by e-mailing in Ukrainian, Russian or English or by calling at the telephone number specified in contact details.

To send an email to Notary

Contact Details:

Notary Private of Kyiv City Notarial District

Oksana Viktorivna Korotiuk

5, Zoi Haidai Str., Kyiv, 04212, Ukraine,

tel.: +38 (044) 467 88 33; +38 (067) 288 68 68; tel./fax: +38 (044) 467 39 39;

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Working hours: Mo-Sa: 09:00 AM – 06:00 PM, Su: by agreement.

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Drawing up of a will in Ukraine

A foreign citizen and stateless person shall have the right to draw up a will in Ukraine.

Capacity of an individual to draw up and revoke a will, as well as the form of a will and revocation thereof shall be determined by the law of the country where the testator lived when he/she drew up the act.

A testator shall have the right to mention in his/her will that the testamentary relations will be regulated by the law of the country of his/her nationality. The ancestor’s choice of law shall be null and void, if he/she changes his/her nationality after drawing up of the will.

In Ukraine a foreign citizen or stateless person shall have the right to draw up the following types of wills:

- conditional will (the will may contain one or several conditions under which the heir shall acquire the right to succession (for example, obtaining of a certain education, attainment of a certain age, availability or absence of children etc.));

- will with testamentary renunciation (based on the testamentary renunciation, the heir may be obligated to perform certain property-related acts in favor of the beneficiary, for example, to grant the right to use the inherited property);

- will with deprivation of the right to succession (disinheritance) (the testator shall have the right to disinherit any legal heir without giving any reasons by mentioning about it in his/her will. The individuals who have a hereditary portion cannot be disinherited);

- will stipulating constitution of a company (the will may contain a constituent act);

- spouses’ will (under the spouses’ will, a share in the joint common property after death of one of the spouses shall pass to the second surviving spouse; in case of death of the latter, the right to succession shall be acquired by the person determined by the spouses in the will);

- will with creation of a servitude (easement) (the ancestor shall have the right to create in his/her will an easement over a land plot, other natural resources or another real estate to serve the needs of other persons);

- will with substitution (the testator shall have the right to appoint another heir, if the heir stated in the will (heir-by-will) dies before opening of inheritance, does not accept it or refuses to accept it, or is deprived of the right to succession, as well as in case of absence of the conditions stated in the will);

- secret will (a secret will shall be notarized without reading the content thereof);

- will with imposing of certain obligations on the heir (the testator may obligate an heir to perform certain non-property-related acts, in particular, regarding disposition of personal papers, determination of the burial place and form of funeral services etc.).

Attention!

An ancestor may not disinherit the individuals who have a hereditary portion. They include: ancestor’s under-14, under-16, adult disabled children, disabled widow (widower) and disabled parents.

The above individuals, regardless of the contents of the will, shall inherit a half of the portion, which would belong each to them in case of legal succession (hereditary portion).

The size of the hereditary portion can be decreased judicially with due account for relations between the heirs and the ancestor, as well as other circumstances of essential importance.