LEGAL INHERITORS IN THE ABSENCE OF A WILL FOR A NUCELAR FAMILY (I)

Relationship with the deceased

If you are married and have children (or in a common-law relationship and one of your children was born after June 2025), then in the absence of a will, your legal inheritors are YOUR SPOUSE FOR 1/3 and YOUR CHILDREN FOR 2/3.

If your children are minors, they will be the outright owners of your real estate property, which will make it harder to sell (authorization from the court required, etc.); in the meanwhile, the surviving parent has to pay the mortgage, the taxes, all the expenses of the house, with one salary missing.

If your children inherit, you will miss out on fiscal rollovers to your spouse.