With regard to persons who are not present nor represented at the opening of the will, such period shall begin to run from the day when the liquidator informs them of the establishment of persons entitled to the succession. It shall run in like manner where there is no will.
Civil Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
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Article 836
2. Persons Not Present · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
The validity of a will and the establishment of persons entitled to the succession proposed by the liquidator may in no case be contested after five years from the day of the opening of the will or, if there is no will, five years from the death of the deceased.