SUCCESION (Atty. KVS) - Codal Rehash I

If a person attests the execution of a will, to whom or to whose spouse, or parent, or child, a devise or legacy is given by such will, such devise or legacy shall, so far only as concerns such person, or spouse, or parent, or child of such person, or any one claiming under such person or spouse, or parent, or child, be void, unless there are ________ other ________ ________ to such will. However, such person so attesting shall be admitted as a witness as if such devise or legacy had not been made or given.

In case of any insertion, cancellation, erasure or alteration in a holographic will, the testator must ________ the same by his full ________.

The law presumes that every person is of ________ ________, in the absence of proof to the contrary.

The burden of proof that the testator was not of (same as the blanks above) at the time of making his dispositions is on the person who opposes the probate of the will; but if the testator, one month, or less, before making his will was publicly known to be insane, the person who maintains the validity of the will must prove that the testator made it during a lucid interval.

The ________ of a person includes not only the property and the transmissible rights and obligations existing at the time of his death, but also those which have accrued thereto since the opening of the succession.

The will shall be disallowed in any of the following cases:

(1) If the ________ required by law have not been complied with;

(2) If the testator was ________, or otherwise mentally incapable of making a will, at the time of its execution;

(3) If it was executed through ________ or under duress, or the influence of fear, or threats;

(4) If it was procured by undue and improper pressure and influence, on the part of the ________ or of some other person;

(5) If the signature of the testator was procured by ________;

(6) If the testator acted by ________ or did not intend that the instrument he signed should be his will at the time of affixing his signature thereto.

If the testator be deaf, or a deaf-mute, he must personally read the will, if able to do so; otherwise, he shall designate ________ persons to read it and communicate to him, in some practicable manner, the contents thereof.

An heir is a person called to the ________ either by the provision of a will or by operation of law.

________ and ________ are persons to whom gifts of real and personal property are respectively given by virtue of a will.

If after making a will, the testator makes a second will expressly revoking the first, the revocation of the second will does not revive the first will, which can be revived only by another ________ or ________.

A codicil is a ________ or addition to a will, made after the execution of a will and ________ to be taken as a part thereof, by which disposition made in the original will is explained, added to, or altered.