LEARNING ABOUT SUCCESSION AND UNWORTHINESS OF INHERITANCE: UNDERSTANDING RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Abstract

This article aims to study the rights and responsibilities of family order in legal successions, focusing on the unworthiness in inheritance. To achieve the proposed objectives, the methodology adopted was based on bibliographic research, as it allowed the analysis of the main authors of the area and the Federal Justice Digital Library (BDJF), in order to find the themes discussed on the judicial issue related to unworthiness in inheritance. For the development of this article, articles, documents, dissertations and jurisprudence from the BDJF on the subject were researched, enabling the use of theses and themes discussed. These were fundamental for the definition of the responsibilities and rights related to the legal successions, specifically about the unworthiness in the inheritance. It is important to highlight that legal successions are complex institutes of Civil Law, since they establish rights and obligations arising from the death of a spouse, partner or relative. Therefore, knowledge about the unworthiness in inheritance is necessary, since it serves as a protective tool for the safety of the heir. In this work, it was possible to establish the necessary guidelines to understand the Brazilian legal reality about the legal successions, specifically for the unworthiness of inheritance. Through the bibliographical research it was possible to expand the knowledge of the subject within the jurisdictional area, prioritizing and sedimenting important and fundamental principles, enabling the adequacy of the field of discussions on the subject.