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LESSON 1. SUCCESSION AND SUCCESSION LAW |
1.- Mortis causa succession and the Law of succession.
2.- The principles of spanish inheritance Law.
3.- Inheritance ant the right to inherit. Composition of the assets of the estate.
4.- Types of succession and successors: the heir and the legatee. |
LESSON 2. STAGES OF HEREDITARY SUCCESSION |
1.- Stages of hereditary succession: Opening, Notice, Offering and Acceptance.
2.- Possible inheritance scenarios.
3.- The recumbent inheritance.
4.- Taking possession of inherited assets. |
LESSON 3. CAPACITY TO INHERIT |
1.- General requirements to inherit.
2.- Absolute incapacities and the successor's survival of the decedent.
3.- Prohibitions on, or bars to, succession.
4.- Unworthiness: characteristics, causes, time, effects and reinstatement of the unworthy person.
5.- The loss of inheritance rights. |
LESSON 4. OFFERING OF THE INHERITANCE |
1.- The right to accept or reject. Types of appeals.
2.- Right of transmission.
3.- Right of representation. Concept, bases, effects.
4.- Right to increase; right of accretion. Concept, bases and effects. |
LESSON 5. ACCEPTING AND REJECTING AN INHERITANCE |
1.- Acceptance and rejection: General theory.
2.- Accepting the inheritance.
3.- Rejecting the inheritance.
4.- Accepting with benefit of inventory.
5.- Claiming the inheritance. |
LESSON 6. COMMUNITY OF HEIRS |
1.- Concept, nature and characteristics.
2.- Legal status of the community of heirs. |
LESSON 7. THE DIVISION OF AN ESTATE |
1.- Division: Concept; the right to divide; the ability to request division.
2.- Standard operations in division: Inventory, appraisal, liquidation, formation of lots and distribution.
3.- Types of division: Division effected by the testator, by an estate distributor, by co-heirs, by an appointed estate distributor, by a third party and by an arbitrator. Judicial division.
4.- Effects of division: Termination of the community of heirs and the obligation to provide warranties of good title and against hidden defects.
5.- Ineffectiveness of division. Rescission due to injury. Addition and modification. |
LESSON 8. COLLATION |
1.- Concept and basis.
2.- Subjective requirements.
3.- Objective requirements. |
LESSON 9. THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT; TYPES OF WILLS |
1.- Concept and characteristics.
2.- Capacity to grant a will.
3.- Types of wills. |
LESSON 10. THE CONTENT OF THE WILL (I): THE HEIR |
1.- The appointment of the heir.
2.- The action of petition for inheritance.
3.- Liability of the heir before the debts and burdens of the inheritance.
4.- Disposal of the inheritance. Effects.
5.- Proof and registration of the right of the heir. |
LESSON 11. THE CONTENT OF THE WILL (II): LEGACIES |
1.- Concept and characters of the legacy.
2.- Subjects.
3.- Object.
4.- Acquisition of the right to the bequest.
5.- Order of priority for paying legacies.
6.- Failure and effectiveness of the bequest.
7.- Types of legacies regulated in the Civil Code.
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LESSON 12. THE CONTENT OF THE WILL (III): THE SUBSTITUTIONS |
1.- Concept and types of substitution.
2.- Ordinary or vulgar substitution.
3.- Pupillary substitution.
4.- Fideicommissary substitution. |
LESSON 13. INTERPRETATION, INEFFECTIVENESS AND EXECUTION OF A WILL |
1.- Interpretation of a will.
2.- Defects in consent.
3.- Revocation of a will.
4.- Invalidity and lapse of a will.
5.- Carrying out the will: The role of the executor. |
LESSON 14. LIMITS OF THE TESTAMENTARY WILL: RESERVED SHARES AND RESERVATIONS |
1.- The reserved share in the Spanish Civil Code: Concept and nature.
2.- Beneficiaries and amount of the reserved share.
3.- Calculation and payment of the reserved share.
4.- The intangibility of the reserved share.
5.- Preterition.
6.- Disinheritance.
7.- Reservations. |
LESSON 15. INTESTACY. SUCCESSION AGREEMENT |
1.- Intestacy.
2.- Succession Agreement. |