Volume V: Succession | Chapter 3 (2002): Intestate Succession

Completed December 1995; some later developments up to 1998 have been taken into account.

Karl Heinz Neumayer

A. Descendants

59. Illegitimate and adopted relatives. – In presenting, in the preceding subchapter on succession systems, the rules on the rights of succession of descendants, the issue of which persons qualify as “descendants” was not discussed. Peculiarities may arise…