One of the heirs does not leave the house and is preventing the partage. What to do?
'Work and taxes (un)complicated' is a section of Notícias ao Minuto, signed by Dantas Rodrigues, about topics related to work, personal finances and taxes.
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"Civil law, more specifically article 2091 of the Civil Code, understands that, while the inheritance remains undivided, the rights related to it “can only be exercised jointly by all the heirs or against all the heirs”.
That said, the heir who uses the property and is preventing the division is not the holder of a specific right over that asset or any other assets of the inheritance. Only after the division will he be able to have any right, if that asset were awarded to him, it being certain that this right retroacts to the moment of the opening of the succession, as stated in article 2119 of the Civil Code.
Until the division, the inheritance and, necessarily, the assets that constitute it are administered by the head of the household (according to article 2079 of the Civil Code), so it should be the head of the household who has possession of such property and administers it.
Therefore, if the heir does not voluntarily hand over the property, and uses it as if it were exclusively his property, legal action may be brought against him, in order to claim ownership (of the undivided inheritance) and restore possession to the head of the household."
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Dantas Rodrigues has been a lawyer since 1993 and a partner at Dantas Rodrigues & Associados. He has also been a professor of Law at Ensino Superior Politécnico since 1995.
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