Having to be accountable to your children for the management of your property, or for your choice of housing, is a bleak prospect for parents.
But it turns into a nightmare when you have to deal with your stepchildren.
A situation that is all the more painful if the age gap is small.
The legislator was also well aware of this when he extended the protection of the surviving spouse.
The law has carefully avoided the latter finding himself in a situation of “sharing property” with the children of another union: he inherits a quarter of his husband's estate in full ownership and cannot, as when the children are common, choose the usufruct of the entirety.
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This quarter of the property may be enough for the spouse to preserve their standard of living, when the assets are significant, if it allows them to recover the housing they occupied and some cash.
But he will not necessarily have the necessary means to keep the house by the sea.
1. Avoid or end the usufruct of property
The part…
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