Of all forms of conjugality, marriage is the only one that provides protection to the survivor.
This was not always the case.
In the Napoleonic code of 1804, the widower or widower could only inherit in the absence of descendants up to the twelfth degree.
Lineage or legitimate filiation took precedence over alliance.
If the surviving spouse is no longer the poor relation of inheritances today, it is thanks to recent reforms - in 2001, 2004 and 2006. In 2007, the latest one exempted him from inheritance tax.
In this, the legislator followed the wishes of the French: upon the death of their spouse, the spouse must be able to maintain their living environment.
Because there are few Romeo and Juliet or Tristan and Isolde who share everything, until death, like the “lovers of Lutetia”, these two octogenarians who left together, in 2013, in a room in the Parisian palace.
Five million people are widowed, 84% of whom are women, according to Dialogue and Solidarity, an association that supports…
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