1 SUMMARY- FORCED HEIR AND DISINHERITANCE The subject of this thesis is the forced heir and disinheritance. The purpose of the thesis is to describe the current and future legal regulation while comparing them. Every testator is obliged to leave some part of the property to his or her forced heir. The forced heir is the testator's descendant and can be either minor or major. The only way for testator to avoid this obligation is to write a deed of disinheritance. There is a specified number of reasons of disinheritance; they are as follows: 1) the forced heir did not provide necessary assistance to the testator in disease, in old age or in a certain serious case 2) he did not show real interest in the testator 3) he was sentenced to imprisonment for at least one year 4) he led a dissolute life. The New Civil Code has replaced the third reason by following: the forced heir was sentenced for a criminal offense, which indicates his wicked nature, and adds one more reason of disinheritance, allowing to the testator to disinherit a wasteful forced heir. Both the current and future regulation of disinheritance are criticized for their generality and unclear definition of legal terms. The thesis is composed of 4 chapters. Chapter One is introductory and defines basic terminology used in the thesis: the forced heir...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:330217 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Kozlová, Ivana |
| Contributors | Thöndel, Alexandr, Frinta, Ondřej |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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