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Legal Updates on the Family Code Philippines and relevant matters: 07/03/11
Heirs and inheritance (Part 2): Legitimes, free portions, and intestate shares; determining the value of an heir’s share in the inheritance
1. The law that governs the issues on inheritance is the New Civil Code of the Philippines (NCC), not the Family Code..
2. “Testate or testamentary succession” refers to situations where the person died leaving a last will. The person who executes a last will is called the “testator.”
The share in the inheritance is called “legitime” and is covered by Arts. 886-914, NCC.
The NCC provides for compulsory heirs” or certain people to whom the testator is obligated to give their legitimes.
In computing the legitimes, the remaining portion of the estate is called the “free portion.” The testator can give this portion to anyone.
3. “Legal or intestate succession” refers to situations where the person died without a last will; the share in the inheritance is called “intestate share.” (There is no “free portion” in intestate succession.)
4. “Extrajudicial settlement of estate” is a voluntary agreement among the heirs partitioning the estate (free of debts), executed before a notary public, and published once a week for three weeks in a newspaper of general circulation.
5. A sole heir claiming the whole estate can file an “Affidavit of adjudication by sole heir” with the Register of Deeds (if real property is involved) or with the BIR.
Arts. 886-914, NCC
Surviving spouse 1/3
(Remaining 1/3 is free portion;
Art. 894, NCC) 1/2
Art. 998, NCC
Legitimate parents 1/4
(Art. 899, NCC; testator may
freely dispose of the remaining 1/8 of the estate.) 1/4
Art. 1000, NCC
Legitimate parents 1/4 (taken from free portion, Art. 896, NCC)
1/2 (Art. 889, NCC) 1/2
Art. 991, NCC
Surviving spouse 1/2
(Art. 893, NCC) 1/2
Art. 997, NCC
1/4 (Art. 904,
NCC) 1/2
Arts. 993-994, NCC
Illegitimate children alone 1/2 (divided by number of illegitimate children)
Remainder is free portion (Art. 901, NCC) All (Art. 988, NCC)
Legitimate parents alone 1/2; remaining half is free portion (Arts. 889 and 890, NCC) All (Art.
985-987, NCC)
Illegitimate parents alone 1/2 (Art. 903, NCC) All (Art. 993, NCC)
Surviving spouse alone 1/2, 1/3, 1/2 (Art. 900, NCC) All (Art.
995, NCC)
Legitimate children (or their descendants) alone 1/2 (divided by the number of children)
Remaining half is free portion (Art. 888, NCC) All (Art. 980, NCC)
Remaining 1/4 is free portion (Art. 892, NCC) 1/2
(Art. 996, NCC)
Remainder is free portion (Art. 892, NCC) Consider spouse as 1 legitimate child and
divide estate by total number (Art. 996, NCC)
Illegitimate child 1/2
Remainder is free portion (Art. 892, NCC) Please read Article 176 of the Family Code: computing the legitimes of legitimate and illegitimate children; an illegitimate child gets one-half)
Not entitled to anything since they are not compulsory heirs; testator may choose to give them something out of the free portion 1/2
1/2 (divided by the number of brothers
and sisters; nephews and nieces of deceased siblings divide among themselves
the share that should have gone to their parents) Art. 1001, NCC
Posted by Atty. Gerry T. Galacio at Sunday, July 03, 2011 0 comments