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Section 689
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689. Where the assets of the succession are insufficient to make full payment of the contributions due to the spouse or to a descendant, as a result of liberalities made by acts inter vivos during the three years preceding the death or having the death as a term, the court may order the liberalities reduced.
Liberalities to which the spouse or descendant consented may not be reduced, however, and those he has received shall be imputed to his claim.
689. Where the assets of the succession are insufficient to make full payment of the contributions due to the spouse or to a descendant, as a result of liberalities made by acts inter vivos during the three years preceding the death or taking effect at the death, the court may order the liberalities reduced.
Liberalities to which the spouse or descendant consented may not be reduced, however, and those he has received shall be imputed to his claim.
689. Where the assets of the succession are insufficient to make full payment of the contributions due to the spouse or to a descendant, as a result of liberalities made by acts inter vivos during the three years preceding the death or taking effect at the death, the court may order the liberalities reduced.
Liberalities to which the spouse or descendant consented may not be reduced, however, and those he has received shall be debited from his claim.
