{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:803","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Position of Creditors of Heirs","number":"803","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/803/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK III - SUCCESSIONS","title":"TITLE II. LIQUIDATION OF SUCCESSIONS","chapter":"Chapter 1. - General Provisions","section":null,"paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"Pending the liquidation and before the partition, the personal creditors of the heirs shall have no recourse on the property of the succession.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/803/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":221,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/221/?article=803&paragraph=p1#article-803-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"A creditor may claim that partition shall take place. However, in case the interests of a creditor and of one or more of the heirs are contradictory, the Court may decide that partition may be postponed during a certain period.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/803/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":221,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/221/?article=803&paragraph=p2#article-803-p2"}]},{"id":"p3","number":"3","text":"A creditor of an heir may claim that in due time an heir makes a choice between acceptance, acceptance under the benefit of inventory or renunciation of the inheritance. A decision of an heir to accept fully, or to renounce an inheritance, due to which the recourse on the property of the heir will not be sufficient, may be annulled on the terms of Article 848.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/803/#p3","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":221,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/221/?article=803&paragraph=p3#article-803-p3"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}