Article on Importance of Will Execution Formalities in Serbian Law

Miloš Vukotić recently posted an Article entitled, Importance of Will Execution Formalities in Serbian Law, Wills, Trusts, & Estates Law eJournal (2018). Provided below is an abstract of the Article:

This article deals with requirements of testamentary form and their application in judicial practice in Serbia. In contrast to the prevailing tendency of reducing formalism in the law of wills, Serbian courts require strict compliance with all will execution formalities. The main thesis of this article is that strict compliance with formalities should be abandoned in favour of substantial compliance and that some statutory formalities should be completely removed. The author discusses the general tendency of reducing formalism in a comparative perspective, the functions of will execution formalities and the formal requirements under Serbian law and their application in judicial practice.