On What Makes Me Feel Tired Now...

I feel rather tired now. Being busy a great part of the day thinking, analyzing and writing a legal request to Our German Notary. I will not mention the subject and the fine details here. But you will understand that ultimately – after the sudden breakdown of all usual, selfevident practical financial arrangements between lifelong partners – you wish that also the final loose ends could be knit together again. At least for the immediate future to come.
But then you do not reckon with different legal and taxation authorities, and different legal cultures between states in 2021-Europe. With so many people living their financial and propertylives all over a non-federal Europe, there still does not exist the beginning of a supranational integrative private and publictaxation law. And while so many shortsighted and closed-minded populists hurl their slogans about the absolute primacy of national sovereignty and the abolishment of all international law, reality confronts you with this simple experiental fact:
Nobody seems to know what to do legally, when your partner dies, while you happen to live in a foreign country. There are numerous well-payed international finance&taxevasion experts everywhere who can sort out the most lucrative way to cheat and sting the whole system. But in such an everyday, simple and ordinary case as Ours, you have to find out all by yourself how to proceed and organize your own best solutions.
Becoming that kind of expert you will not find in the normal institutions, not even on the level of official heritage-tax-authorities. Unbelievable but bizarrely true. And on top of that Our Covid-Pandemic has closed down all possibility of searching basic legal guidebooks in an academic bookstore or a university library in Kassel, Göttingen or Hannover. I would have loved to study a German introduction on International private and taxation law. Even Our Notary kept silent when I asked him for an author or a title in this field. And that is exactly what makes me feel tired now. Sleep well, you all. May you have sweet dreams.