The ECHR rejects Jean-Michel Jarre who claimed a share of the inheritance of his father Maurice Jarre. The musician and his sister Stéphanie challenged the bequest of all his father's property to his last wife before the European Court of Human Rights.
In French law, you cannot theoretically disinherit one of your children, under the principle of “hereditary reserve” which does not exist in Californian law. The ECHR considers that the French courts “respected the testamentary freedom of the deceased” whose wishes reflected a “continuous and well-defined approach to benefit their surviving spouse”