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Book 5 · Law of succession  ›  Subtitle 1 · Legal relationship of the heirs between themselves › Section 2050

Duty to adjust advancements for descendants as heirs on intestacy

(1) Descendants who inherit as heirs on intestacy are obliged to have adjusted whatever they received from the deceased during the latter’s lifetime as an advancement in the partitioning between the heirs, unless the deceased directed otherwise when giving the advancement.

(2) Contributions that were given in order to be used as income, and expenses for training for a profession, are to be adjusted to the extent that they exceeded the degree appropriate for the financial circumstances of the deceased.

(3) Other gifts inter vivos are to be adjusted if the deceased directed adjustment when they made the gift.

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