Understand the donation
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Updated on Tuesday 1 March 2022
Succession: rules to know for a donation
Donation makes it possible to reward loved ones (family members or not) but also a labor, an association or a congregation one may support. Donation is a serious act because, except for exceptions, it is definitive.
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Updated on Friday 12 December 2025
How is a donation taxed?
A donation is an act by which a person, the donor, voluntarily and irrevocably transfers ownership of something, free of charge, to another person, the donee (Civil Code, Art. 894).
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Updated on Friday 23 June 2023
Succession: What is a donation with right of usufruct?
Donation has "the right of usufruct" when only the bare ownership of the property is given, and the donor retains the usufruct of the given property.
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Updated on Tuesday 4 October 2022
Inheritance: donation and peculiar clauses
A donation may include special clauses, to meet the desires of the donor. A notary’s intervention is necessary to draft a valid clause and in accordance with the will of the donor.
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A question ? Need help ?
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No. It all depends on your deed of gift. If it was expressly stipulated that the gift concerned the property and the furniture, then you are the owner of the furniture. Conversely, if your uncle only gave you bare ownership of the property, he retained ownership of the furniture.
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No. The surviving spouse may claim a lifetime right of use and habitation over the property that was their main residence at the time of the spouse’s death, provided it belonged to the couple or to the deceased (Article 764 of the French Civil Code). However, case law (a body…
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No. The operation would consist of giving each an undivided share of the property. However, the situation of joint ownership is incompatible with the donation-partage which requires that the donor distributes his property between the beneficiaries (art. 1075 C. civ. and Cass. Civ. 1e, 20 Nov. 2013, n°12-25.681).