Art. 540 C. Requirements for the heirs / I. Capacity / 2. Unworthiness to inherit / a. Grounds

2. Unworthiness to inherit

a. Grounds

¹ A person is unworthy of inheriting or acquiring anything by a testamentary disposition if:

1.: he or she wilfully and unlawfully caused or attempted to cause the death of the person now deceased;
2.: he or she wilfully and unlawfully rendered the person now deceased permanently incapable of making a testamentary disposition;
3.: by malice, coercion or threat he or she induced the person now deceased to make or revoke a testamentary disposition or prevented him or her from doing so;
4.: he or she wilfully and unlawfully eliminated or invalidated a testamentary disposition in such a manner as to prevent the person now deceased from drawing up a new one.

² Unworthiness to inherit does not apply if the person now deceased has forgiven the person concerned.

2. Indignitad d’ertar

a. Motivs

¹ Indegn dad esser ertavel u d’acquistar insatge or d’ina disposiziun per causa da mort è:

1.: tgi che ha chaschunà u empruvà da chaschunar intenziunadamain ed illegalmain la mort dal testader;
2.: tgi che ha privà intenziunadamain ed illegalmain il testader per adina da sia capacitad da disponer;
3.: tgi che ha muventà u impedì il testader tras engion, tras sforz u tras smanatschas da far u da revocar ina disposiziun per causa da mort;
4.: tgi che ha eliminà u fatg nunvalaivla intenziunadamain ed illegalmain ina disposiziun per causa da mort sut talas circumstanzas, ch’il testader n’ha betg pli pudì renovar quella.

² Sch’il testader perduna a l’indegn d’ertar, finescha l’indignitad d’ertar.