How Is Property Liquidation And Inheritance Sharing When One Of The Spouses Dies?
What happens in the case of the death of one of the spouses and the division of inheritance?
When the marriage union ends with the death of one of the spouses, the property regime between the spouses is liquidated before the division of inheritance between the surviving spouse and children and other heirs. After the surviving spouse receives half of the deceased’s “acquired property”, the inheritance is divided. The estate consists of “half of the acquired property and personal property” of the deceased spouse. When the inheritance is divided, the surviving spouse, who is the heir together with his/her children, receives ¼ of the inheritance. If there is a “family residence” that was lived in during the marriage and owned by the deceased spouse, the surviving spouse has the right to request that the ownership of the family residence be given to him/her “in return for his/her inheritance share”.
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