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DAVID HUMPHREYS
PETER ADYE |
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CHEMIN DES MESSES 26
1380 LASNE
Belgium
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| Telephone: |
+32 (0)2 633 2882 |
| Email: |
david@humphreys.be |
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Activities
The BRATS group was formed by an ad-hoc group of US and UK expats who had either already retired in Belgium, or were working in Belgium and thinking about retiring here. We shared a frustration about the difficulty of finding experts who knew about the various aspects of retirement for expats in Belgium, especially the intricacies of estate planning. One of our members concentrated on researching the estate planning aspect. Others created a checklist to help relatives deal more easily with the death of Belgian resident expats, and a process to help one another periodically check whether or not staying in Belgium continued to be the best choice for them. We dealt with a variety of other matters – volunteering, leisure and learning opportunities, health care, etc. As the area of estate planning is both complex and not easy to access, we decided to make it more broadly available and started working with sponsors to enable us to publish the information. We also came to realise that we had accumulated quite a lot of knowledge about retiring in Belgium, in addition to estate planning, which would be useful to others in similar situations. |
