It is a document that is very useful if you want to avoid letting the law choose for you.
In the absence of a will, it is your descendants who will directly inherit your property, your children in priority, and this up to the sixth degree of kinship.
Although it is of course impossible to disinherit your offspring, writing a will nevertheless allows you to make your own arrangements.
To reward a nephew or a friend, or simply to benefit the spouse who will survive you, for example by allowing him or her to retain the use of a second home.
Providing a will is even more necessary if you are not married.
PACS partners can only inherit from each other if there is a will.
To be valid, your will does not have to be authentic, that is to say drawn up by a notary.
You can write it yourself.
Less restrictive, this so-called “holographic” version must nevertheless follow strict formalism set by law.
Here are the tips that will allow you not only to write it but also to make it indisputable.
1. Follow the Civil Code to the letter
“The holographic will will not be valid if it is not
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