When a person validly renounces an inheritance, they are deemed never to have been an heir .
She therefore no longer has any rights in the inheritance and, if applicable, she must return any assets from the estate that she had in her possession.
The person renouncing is generally no longer bound by the obligations or debts of the deceased as an heir.
Renunciation also changes the distribution of the estate. The share that the renouncing party would have received is allocated to the other persons entitled to it according to the will or the rules of intestate succession.
In matters of legal succession, the descendants of the person who renounced their inheritance cannot represent them to receive their share. The distribution of this share must instead be determined according to the rules applicable to inheritance.
Finally, renunciation does not necessarily prevent a person from receiving certain sums that are not part of the estate and to which they are entitled under another legal basis. The nature of these sums and the conditions applicable to them must be verified separately.