CC 954 - Retroactive effects of acceptance and renunciation

Art. 954. Retroactive effects of acceptance and renunciation

To the extent that he accepts rights to succeed, a successor is considered as having succeeded to those rights at the moment of death of the decedent. To the extent that a successor renounces rights to succeed, he is considered never to have had them.

Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.