Abstract. The article discusses the issues of inheritance law in the context of private international law. Special attention is paid to conflicting norms and problems arising in the regulation of inheritance relations with the involvement of an international element, analysis of legal systems of different countries.
This article presents analysis of the norms of hereditary law of some countries of the
European Union, normative-legal acts, that regulate the procedure of succession including
cases of absence of the will of the testator (if the deceased was not married and had no
children; if parents are already dead; if the deceased was not married but had children; if the
deceased left the spouse of the married couple; if the deceased left husband/wife and children),
prescribing the same rules for all of the countries regardless of the nationality.