{"id":1006,"date":"2021-06-30T07:15:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T05:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/internationales-erbrecht\/erbrecht-in-der-eu\/erbrecht-im-ausland\/der-deutsch-belgische-erbfall\/gibt-es-in-belgien-ein-pflichtteilsrecht\/"},"modified":"2021-06-30T07:15:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T05:15:57","slug":"is-there-a-compulsory-share-of-inheritance-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/internationales-erbrecht\/erbrecht-in-der-eu\/erbrecht-im-ausland\/der-deutsch-belgische-erbfall\/gibt-es-in-belgien-ein-pflichtteilsrecht\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there a right to a compulsory portion in Belgium?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Belgium, the descendants of the deceased and their spouse have a so-called forced heirship right. According to Articles 913 et seq. of the Belgian Civil Code, the deceased can only dispose of a portion of their assets if these relatives exist. A part of the estate is reserved for these individuals and is beyond the deceased&#039;s control. The forced heirs receive estate assets in proportion to the shares specified below.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Right of inheritance of descendants<\/strong> Since the reform of the inheritance law on September 1, 2018, the share for descendants no longer depends on their number. The share for descendants has since been \u2013 regardless of their number \u2013 half of the estate.<\/p>\n<p>Exists alongside the descendants <strong>a surviving spouse<\/strong>, If he is entitled to a compulsory share of the inheritance, he can inherit the freely disposable portion and receive a right of use to the portion belonging to his descendants, Article 1094 paragraph 1 of the Swiss Civil Code. If he himself is entitled to a compulsory share, he receives a right of use to half of the estate, Article 915 of the Swiss Civil Code.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Belgien haben die Abk\u00f6mmlinge des Erblassers und dessen Ehegatte ein sogenanntes Noterbrecht. Nach Artikel 913 ff. ZGB kann der Erblasser nur \u00fcber einen Teil seines Verm\u00f6gens verf\u00fcgen, wenn eben genannte Angeh\u00f6rige vorhanden sind. Ein Teil des Nachlasses ist diesen Personen vorbehalten und der Verf\u00fcgungsbefugnis des Erblassers entzogen.\u00a0Die Noterben erhalten Nachlassgegenst\u00e4nde im Wert\u00a0der unten benannten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":410,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1006","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1006\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rechtsanwalt-erbrecht.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}