3. On dispositions inter vivos
a. Cases
The following are subject to abatement in the same manner as testamentary dispositions:
- 1.
- advances against a person’s share of an inheritance made in the form of wedding gifts, settlements or assignments of assets, to the extent these are not subject to hotchpot;
- 2.
- compensation payments in settlement of future rights of inheritance;
- 3.
- gifts that were freely revocable by the deceased or made in the five years prior to his or her death, with the exception of customary occasional gifts;
- 4.
- assets alienated by the deceased with the obvious intention of circumventing the limitations on his or her testamentary freedom.