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China legal tool Family & inheritance National framework
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Intestate movable succession uses the decedent's habitual-residence law at death; intestate immovable succession uses law of the property's location. Will formal validity has multiple alternative connecting laws; will substantive validity uses habitual residence or nationality at will-making/death. Estate administration uses estate-location law.
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