Article 779
The personal creditors of a person who refrains from accepting a succession or who renounces a succession to the prejudice of their rights may be authorised in court to accept the succession in their…
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The personal creditors of a person who refrains from accepting a succession or who renounces a succession to the prejudice of their rights may be authorised in court to accept the succession in their…
The heir may not be forced to opt before the expiry of a period of four months from the opening of the succession. At the expiry of this period, he may be summoned, by extrajudicial act, to take sides…
…or the person or persons from whom he derives that status accepted the succession before the expiry of that period.
The provisions of articles 771, 772 and 773 apply to the next-ranking heir called to succeed where the first-ranking heir renounces the succession or is unworthy to succeed. The four-month period prov…
Error, fraud or violence is a cause of nullity of the option exercised by the heir. The action for nullity is barred after five years from the day on which the error or fraud was discovered or the day…
…the succession purely and simply or renounce it. He may also accept the succession up to the amount of the net assets where he has a universal vocation or universal title. A conditional or term option…
The provisions referred to in article 774 also apply to the heirs of a person who dies without having opted. The four-month period runs from the opening of the latter's estate. The heirs of a person w…
…to damages, an heir who has concealed property or rights from an estate or concealed the existence of a co-heir is deemed to accept the estate purely and simply, notwithstanding any renunciation or a…
A successor who is affected by a cause of unworthiness provided for in articles 726 and 727, where the deceased, subsequent to the facts and to his knowledge of them, has specified, by an express decl…
To succeed, a person must exist at the time the succession is opened or, having already been conceived, be born viable. A person whose absence is presumed under article 112.
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