The Notary Chamber submitted a proposal to amend the Inheritance Act.
The changes affect the advertising part of the announcement of wills.
"We aim to shed light on the technical moment when a found will be opened and read. We want to create advertising."
"The heirs at law should be informed and present. A period of 30 days should be given, they can go to a notary before this period and have their presence certified with a protocol," explained the chairman of the Notary Chamber, Dimitar Tanev, to Bulgaria ON AIR.
According to him, the will has the value of a notarial deed.
It can be written on wrapping paper with one or five sentences, but have the value of a complex notarial deed of 20-30 pages, he emphasized.
People who create false will take advantage of the lack of publicity, Tanev warned.
"We are proposing something simple that can be done by amending a text of the Inheritance Act. We are also proposing the restoration of a will that was written on a computer. The point is to have two or three witnesses when writing it. This is a guarantee that the will has not been forged," the chairman of the Notary Chamber also said.
He added that the notary bears absolutely no responsibility and cannot verify whether a will is authentic or not. The court does not verify this either.
"Many colleagues refuse to accept wills so they don't get in trouble."
The will is something very important in the database of the Notary Chamber – there are over 80 thousand wills. The register is in 12 European countries. We will file requests until this register is created. We are technologically ready to do it on our website. A change is required in the regulation on archives, which we have proposed,” explained Tanev.
He specified that out of 80,000 wills, only a few hundred are disputed and it's not a mass issue. But inauthentic wills are becoming more common and it's becoming difficult to dispose of the property.
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