[Legitime Portie in the Perspective of Civil Law on the Division of Inheritance]
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inheritance is a legal rule that applies the main thing in the inheritance process (Haries,
2013). The Civil Code can be interpreted as a legal rule that regulates the fate of a person's
wealth after death and determines who can receive it (Parinussa et al., 2021).
The element of coercion contained in the civil inheritance law is about the provision of
granting absolute rights to certain heirs over a certain amount of inheritance (Wongkar,
2021), for the heirs of Abintestato (without a will) by the Act held a certain part that must
be received by them, a part protected by law, because they are so close to the heir that
the legislators consider it inappropriate if they do not receive anything at the same very
(Sibarani, 2015).To the extent to which the framers of the law determine whether
something is regulatory or coercive, it has been considered that the reasons concerning
family law are connected among others with the will or last will of the deceased.
By law, all the estate of the testator (the deceased) falls into the hands of his heirs. The
estate must be distributed to the heirs according to their respective classes and shares
according to law. The laws and regulations themselves divide the class of heirs into 4
groups and they are the ones who are entitled to receive inheritance property, namely:
Group I i.e. Legal children, husband and wife who live the longest, including the second
wife......and so on (Article 854 jo Article 852a of the Civil Code), Group II parents and
siblings, father or mother (Article 854 to Article 857 of the Civil Code), Group III is a
blood family in a straight line up both in the paternal and maternal lines, briefly it can
be said to be paternal grandparents and maternal grandparents (Article 853 of the Civil
Code), and group IV is a blood family sideways up to the 6th degree (six), namely
paternal and maternal cousins (Article 858 of the Civil Code) (Munarif & Tantu, 2022).
When a person dies, he leaves a lot of property, then the estate goes to the heirs (Prawira,
2022). In this case, the law provides completely and clearly that if the first class of heirs
does not exist, then the second-class heirs are entitled to receive the inheritance. If the
second-class heir does not exist, then the right of inheritance falls to the third-group heir.
And if the heirs of the third class do not exist, then the right of inheritance falls to the
heirs of the fourth group
However, the above provision applies generally, in the sense that if the testator has not
made a valid provision, this provision excludes the basic principle of legitime portie that
if the testator has made a valid decree then the determination may deviate from the
provisions of the law that must take precedence, a valid provision which means that the
testator during his life has determined certain conditions for his estate to be inherited
later. The provision is contained in the will, so with the testator making a will containing
the provision of his estate, the will must come first.
However, the amount of distribution of inheritance based on a predetermined will has
a limitation, namely the testator cannot testify to all his assets where there is a legitime
portie part, which is an absolute share that must be given to the heir by the provisions
of the law that governs it, this is by Article 913 of the Civil Code Legitime portie or part
of inheritance according to law is the part and property that must be given to heirs in