L’hypothèse d’une consécration des « familles » naturelles et adoptives par le droit libanais des successions non musulmanes

Abstract

The Law of 23 June 1959 has significantly reformed the non-Muslim Inheritance Law, in particular by granting inheritance rights to natural and adopted children. While the very innovative nature of this solution has long justified, by a contrario reasoning, that any inheritance rights be refused to adoptive parents as well as to ascendants and collaterals of natural children, the present article attempts to demonstrate that a reversed interprÉtation would not be incompatible with the legislation nor with the evolution of ideas in Lebanon.

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