Practice question
A decedent dies owning an income-producing asset. While the estate is being settled, additional income accrues to the inheritance. One heir claims that nothing accruing after death can ever belong to the inheritance because the inventory was fixed at death. Which is correct?
- All later income necessarily belongs to the administrator personally
- The property becomes ownerless until partition
- Only physical assets present in the room at death count
- Article 781 includes not only the transmissible estate at death but also what accrues to it after succession opens
- All post-death gains belong to the government
Legal references
- Civil Code, Articles 777 and 781: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/53360
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