From ring exchanges to Insta posts: lovers like to show off their wedding vows. But what is the legal relevance of the engagement? About complicated business, strange processes and expensive affairs.
From
Wolfgang Janisch, Karlsruhe
When Silvio Berlusconi recently died, the whole of Italy asked itself: Who will inherit how much? It soon became known that Marta Fascina should get 100 million euros, his – well, what actually? The couple with the big age difference was initially engaged and then celebrated a marriage of hearts last year, but that should not have been official.