A group of five nephews of María Kodama,
widow of the writer Jorge Luis Borges and who died last week, appeared before the Court to claim to be
recognized as the heirs of the literary work
of the author of El Aleph.
"I am relieved," Fernando Soto, who was for years the legal representative of Borges' translator, teacher, writer and executor, told Télam, adding: "
María Kodama's nephews appeared as heirs before Civil Court number 94 " .
"This makes me happy and relieves my spirit, that the nephews have presented themselves as heirs opens a new stage in the succession file," said the lawyer, who yesterday made a judicial presentation in the same court denouncing the possible vacancy of the inheritance with the intention, as he announced at that press conference, that "if there were heirs", encourage them to make themselves known.
After Kodama's death on March 26 due to respiratory failure,
the fate of the rights to Borges's work entered a labyrinth.
However, in the last hours, his nephews Mariana del Socorro, Martín, Nicolás and María Belén Kodama, children of his brother Jorge, now deceased, requested "a declaration of heirs be issued."
According to reports, in the presentation they requested to carry out a provisional inventory and sequester movable property such as literary works, prizes, decorations, manuscripts, photos, journalistic material and property titles of literary and historical value that must be safeguarded.
Soto explained that
"the nephews are responsible for requesting an administrator and the protection of those assets"
and clarified that "although it would be a practical decision" for the plaintiffs to contact him, they are not required to do so by law.
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