The executor can partition the inheritance without consent of all heirs if the will grants full powers
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Who is affected:
Heirs, executors, executors with accounting and partition powers, notaries and registrars in succession proceedings
Summary
The General Directorate resolves a dispute regarding registration of a hereditary partition performed by executor with accounting and partition powers. It clarifies the limits and powers of this role in complex inheritances.
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The DGSJFP resolves the appeal against the registrar's refusal to register a partition of inheritance granted by universal executor with powers to account and partition, following the death of the deceased in 1993. The case involves eleven children, assignments of hereditary rights, prior legacies and a single adjudica…
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