PROBLEMS RELATED TO THE DETERMINATION OF INHERITORS IN INHERITANCE LEGAL RELATIONS
Keywords:
inheritance law, inheritance legal relations, heirs, testator, universal succession, will, intestate succession, escheated inheritance propertyAbstract
This article analyzes the theoretical and practical problems related to determining the composition of heirs in inheritance legal relations. Such factors as the complication of property rights of individuals as a result of assisted reproductive technologies and the expansion of the range of objects included in the inheritance, as well as the legal status of persons born after the death of the testator, require new approaches to the development of the inheritance institution. The author, having conducted a comparative analysis of existing views on the subjects of inheritance legal relations in legal science, highlighted the controversial aspects of the status of the testator as a subject of legal relations based on the norms of the Civil Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The article proposes to classify the subjects of inheritance legal relations by dividing them into compulsory subjects, participating persons, and assisting persons. It is also shown that the expansion of the circle of heirs, the features of the inheritance of legal entities, the fate of ownerless inherited property, and the mechanisms for protecting the interests of creditors under the obligations of the testator in such situations are not sufficiently clearly regulated. Based on the analysis of the experience of foreign countries, a proposal has been put forward to establish liability to creditors within the value of the inheritance when the ownerless inherited property is transferred to the disposal of the state or a self-governing body of citizens.
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