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Can we refuse to make an inventory if we judge that it is useless?

The law forbids to renounce the inventory in advance by Will. The heirs can however renounce it by mutual agreement.

However, those who renounce the inventory must know that they expose themselves to have to pay out of their pockets the deceased's creditors in case the property received by inheritance would be insufficient to do so.

Moreover, the heirs who confuse the property of the succession with their personal property before the end of the liquidation of the succession will be held personally responsible for the debts of the succession even though they would have proceeded to an inventory.

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