SwissCommunity you help a farming family with their daily work. Ideal for anyone who likes being active, loves nature, and who would like to meet a new family and life on a Swiss farm. More detailed information on Agriviva can be found at www.agriviva.ch or by sending an email to info@agriviva.ch. Au-pair – internship – temporary job There are various ways to gain initial work experience in Switzerland. What is required is personal initiative: numerous internet portals publish vacancies where you can apply directly. Address lists and tips on staying in Switzerland can be obtained from educationsuisse. (RG) educationsuisse, education in Switzerland, Alpenstrasse 26, 3006 Berne, Switzerland Tel. +41 31 356 61 04; info@educationsuisse.ch; www.educationsuisse.ch In the country or in the city Why not come to Switzerland to gain your first work experience? The advisory service on education in Switzerland from educationsuisse also provides tips on initial work experience for young Swiss Abroad. In a Swiss city as a language assistant Young students or recent graduates from countries where English, German, French, Spanish or Italian is the official national language can gain experience in the teaching profession. As native speakers they add an extra dimension to language lessons at upper secondary schools or vocational schools and illustrate cultural aspects of their country of residence. Language assistants receive a salary which covers their living costs in Switzerland. The application period for the school year 2023/24 runs until the end of March 2023. More detailed information on the Language Assistance programme can be found at revue.link/movetia or by sending an email to edith.funicello@movetia.ch. Supporting a farming family in the countryside The sound of cowbells or the smell of hay… helping out on a farm is fun and an experience for life. The association Agriviva arranges placements lasting several weeks for young people up to the age of 25 from all over the world. In return for free board and lodging and a small amount of pocket money, itance, if this is not already the case by default in your country of residence. Nonetheless, you should contact the authorities of your country of residence to find out if they will recognise a writ of this nature. This option is not available for plots of land where a country asserts sole jurisdiction over immovable property. The IPRG is not affected by the current revision in the law and continues to apply unchanged. Therefore, if you should decide to make your inheritance subject to Swiss law, the following changes also apply to you. In principle, you can stipulate in your will that you want your inheritance to be settled under Swiss law. However, certain limits have been imposed on the so-called compulsory portions: some family members are entitled to a minimum portion of your inheritance, determined by law. To take account of alternative forms of family life, however, heirs will now be able to dispose of their estate more freely under the new law. The compulsory portions are now lower: from 2023 onwards, the compulsory portion for parents will be abolished. The compulsory portion for children is reduced from three quarters to half of the legal estate, bringing it in line with the (unmodified) compulsory portion for spouses and registered partners. The portion of your estate that you will be able to bequeath to your eldest daughter therefore depends on your other family relationships. If you are married or in a registered partnership, you will have to observe the corresponding compulsory portion. All your children will also be entitled to their respective compulsory portions. With the change in the law, however, you can now dispose of half your estate however you like. If you so wish, you can bequeath this part to your eldest daughter in full, in addition to the compulsory portion to which she is entitled by law. Smilla Schär, OSA Legal Department, info@swisscommunity.org Continued from page 29. 30 Swiss Review / January 2023 / No.1
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