Article 1155: Acceptance of an inheritance after the expiry of the prescribed period

1. On the application of the heir who has missed the time limit set for the acceptance of the inheritance (art. 1154), the court may restore the time limit and recognize the heir as the heir if the heir did not know and should not have known of the opening of the inheritance, or missed it for other valid reasons, and provided that the heir who had missed the time limit set for the acceptance of the inheritance applied The court shall determine the shares of all heirs in the estate and at the time of the succession. Measures to protect the rights of the new heir to receive his share of the inheritance (paragraph 3 of this article) 2. The inheritance may be accepted by the heir after the expiry of the time limit set for its adoption, without recourse to the court, provided that all remaining persons so agree in writing If such consent is given in writing by the heirs not in the presence of the notary, their signatures on the documents of consent shall be witnessed in writing. The consent of the heirs is the ground for the cancellation by the notary of the previous certificate of right to inherit and the ground for its withdrawal. If, on the basis of an earlier certificate, a State registration of real property rights has been carried out, the notary ' s decision to cancel the wound has been revoked. 3. The heir who took the inheritance after the end of the e-certificate and the new certificate is the reason for the relevant changes to the record of State registration. subject to the rules of this article, has the right to receive the inheritance due to him in accordance with rules 1104,105, 11107 and 1108 of this Code, which, in the event that: The provisions of paragraph 2 of this article apply to the extent that a written agreement between the heirs does not provide otherwise.