Inheritance Rights of the Surviving Spouse. Study of Comparative Law
Inheritance Rights of the Surviving Spouse. Study of Comparative Law

Author(s): Cristina Ramona Duță
Subject(s): History of Law, Civil Law, Sociology of Law, Comparative Law
Published by: ADJURIS – International Academic Publisher
Keywords: inheritance rights; surviving spouse; comparative law; civil law;
Summary/Abstract: With a legal situation that placed the surviving husband towards the end of the list of those called to his de cuius inheritance - only the state was found after him in the order of successors, the regulation of his succession rights betrayed, over time, a nonprivileged position. Under the empire of the Civil Codes, the one from 1864 and then the one from 2009, the surviving spouse acquires a well-deserved place among the successors, coming into the contest alongside each class of heirs. The paper aims to analyze the succession rights of the surviving spouse in the different succession systems, the one of Romano-Germanic tradition in the family of which our succession right is a part, the common-law system present in Great Britain and the mixed one of the province of Quebec.

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