Question juridique clé
Whether the request for benefit of inventory was timely under Art. 580 CC
Solution extraite
For the deceased’s children, who were legal reserved heirs, the one-month period began upon knowledge of the death, not upon official communication of the testamentary dispositions.
Motifs extraits
The testament reduced them only to their reserved shares, which did not change their position for purposes of deciding whether to accept, repudiate, or seek an inventory. Therefore no reason existed to postpone the deadline until the will was opened.