French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Heirs.
Article 731
The succession devolves by law to the parents and spouse successors of the deceased under the conditions defined below.
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The succession devolves by law to the parents and spouse successors of the deceased under the conditions defined below.
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 following are unworthy of succession and, as such, excluded from the estate: 1° Anyone who is sentenced, as perpetrator or accomplice, to a criminal penalty for having wilfully caused or attempted…
In the absence of an heir of the first two orders, the succession devolves to ascendants other than the father and mother.
Ownership of property is acquired and transmitted by succession, by gift inter vivos or testamentary, and by the effect of obligations.
Where the father and mother survive and the deceased has no descendants but brothers and sisters or their descendants, one quarter of the estate devolves to each of the father and mother and the remai…
The sequence of degrees forms the line; a direct line is the sequence of degrees between persons who are descended from each other; a collateral line is the sequence of degrees between persons who are…
Representation is a legal fiction whose effect is to call to succession the representatives to the rights of the principal.
…rom the opening of the succession. At the expiry of this period, he may be summoned, by extrajudicial act, to take sides at the initiative of a creditor of the succession, a co-heir, an heir of subseq…
When the limitation period referred to in Article 780 has expired, the person claiming to be an heir must prove that he or the person or persons from whom he derives that status accepted the successio…
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