Abstract: Some European laws of succession have a provision dealing with the effects of judicial separation, divorce and annulment of marriage on wills. This article compares those provisions and stresses a common trend alien to any intervention of a supranational legislator. Even though the approaches in each system of law are not the same, all of them establish the ineffectiveness of any disposition in favour of the spouse made in the will. Another possible common principle of the law of succession in Europe is thus outlined.
European Review of Private Law