Dziedziczenie testamentowe rozwiedzionego małżonka
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1988
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM
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Testamentary succession by a divorced spouse
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The Civil Code provisions on succession by will, unlike the regulation of the
intestate succession, do not give a definite answer as to whether a divorced spouse
inherits after his/her ex-spouse by virtue of a testament drawn before the divorce.
In some foreign legal systems the legislators not only stipulated the norms allowing
the decedent to amend or cancell his/her will, but adopted the regulation according
to which the very fact of divorce or even marital breakdown excludes the ex-
-spouse from inheriting by virtue of a testament drawn prior to divorce.
Trying to find a legal basis to exclude a divorced spouse from testamentary
succession, one should point out to the provisions on error. Although at a time
of drawing a will no defects can be found, the evaluation as to the existence of
error in a testament must be carried out with reference to events which occured
after the will had been drawn. Thus since in a typical case a decedent must
consider divorce unexpected at a time of his/her drawing the will, subsequent
divorce renders the stipulations Of a testament to have been drawn in error.
A testament drawn in error is void. A court will have to assess whether the
invalidity pertains to the entire testament or only to the stipulations in favour of
the ex-spouse.
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 50, 1988, z. 3, s. 55-64