Practice question
A parent donated property jointly to a child and that child’s spouse. In the parent’s estate partition, what does Article 1066 require the child to collate?
- The entire gift as if the spouse received nothing.
- Nothing, because every joint gift is wholly exempt.
- Twice the gift’s value.
- One-half of the thing donated.
- Only the spouse’s unrelated separate property.
Legal references
- Rules of Court, Rules 86-90, provisions specifically identified in the explanations: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_72-109_proceedings.html
- Civil Code, Articles 1061-1077, collation in partition: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
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