THE RIGHT OF CONVICTED TO INHERIT AND BEQUEATH PROPERTY

Abstract

The article analyzes some issues of the right of convicted persons to inherit and bequeath property. The law defines the general provisions on the timing, the ways of accepting the inheritance, the rules of determining the place of opening the inheritance and drawing up a will. Their content does not take into account the features of the legal status of certain categories of heirs, including individuals. Often individuals have to realize inheritance and related rights while in prison. Restriction of certain rights of such categories of citizens, of course, has an effect on the scope of legal inheritance. Clarifications on which provisions of the law can be applied, and which can not in a similar situation is a subject of this article. With due account for the provisions of the law and judicial practice the author revealed some features of the rights of convicts to inherit and bequeath property.