Practice question
An unrelated physician personally cared for the testator during the last illness and receives a testamentary gift within 1027(5). No applicable exception or different legal basis exists. The physician relies only on being generally able to own property. Which is best?
- General property-owning capacity does not remove the specific succession disqualification.
- Every physician automatically inherits every patient’s estate.
- Professional skill repeals every statutory disqualification.
- Only the gift’s wrapping matters.
- Every medical bill is a valid will.
Legal references
- Civil Code Articles991,997-1001,1016-1023,1026-1035,1050 and1063-1072: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
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