Family and Inheritance Law Specifics
Core concepts
This section deepens the family and inheritance rules. In family law, master marriage and divorce, the marital property regime, maintenance, and parental responsibility including contact and relocation. In inheritance, know the opening of succession, the classes of heirs, representation, the reserved share, testamentary capacity, forms of will, revocation by a later will or by destruction, and the rules on legacies and executors. Understand acceptance, renunciation, and the benefit of inventory.
Traps
Questions test the calculation of the reserved share after donations, the treatment of the family home, and the effect of divorce on inheritance rights. Watch the distinction between a legacy and an inheritance share, and the formal requirements of a holographic will.
Rule of thumb
Draw the family tree, then apply the intestate order, then check forced heirship. Example: A testator leaves everything to a friend while a spouse and child survive; the reserved share of the spouse and child limits the gift, and the friend receives only the free portion.