TACIT ACCEPTANCE OF INHERITANCE

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In Italian succession law, tacit acceptance (accettazione tacita) occurs when an heir performs acts that implies the intention to accept the inheritance, even without a formal declaration of acceptance. Under art. 476 of the Civil Code, such acceptance is irrevocable and exposes the heir to full liability for the debt of the estate debts, unless

DNA and inheritance claims in Italy

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DNA profiling is now a widely used method to convict the perpetrator of a crime to a high degree of accuracy. Yet, despite its newfound dramatic appeal, it was originally developed as a means to provide genetic evidence of paternity as early as the mid-1970s; this assessment, known as HLA testing, was a powerful, if

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