„Pflegevermächtnis” - austriacki sposób na wynagrodzenie za opiekę nad zmarłym

The purpose of this article is to present and analyze the new institution in the austrian inheritance law, ie Pflegevermächtnis - the care legacy. The problem of an aging population refers to the vast majority of European countries, and thus there is a need to adapt legal regulations to the new circumstances. The examined issue has two important social goals: providing elderly people with proper care in the last years of their life and due remuneration of family members who have been provided with care over a deceased. So far, in Austria, people who looked after the deceased before his death were forced to seek compensation in difficult and lengthy trials, with the lack of a settled case-law in this regard. The presented analysis of the Austrian care legacy can be an interesting material for analysis for the Polish legislator in the case of the desire to solve the problem of remuneration and care for a testator before his death.