Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1920 — Children Provided For in Inheritance Laws of Belgium [ARTICLE]

Children Provided For in Inheritance Laws of Belgium

The law of inheritance in Belgium is of a nature to promote thrift, or rather, to prevent the dissipation of property, because it makes the family possessions a common fund in which children have defined rights, observes an exchange. The law treats the property of the father and mother as one. When either dies the whole property is valued and half goes to the survivor. The remaining half is divided into equal parts among the children. On the death of the other parent the second half, with whatever accretions he or she may have made in the interval, is subdivided among the children. The law is automatic, the children know the proportion- in which they will benefit and the parents can not alienate their property.