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FranceCivil
Widow fights over late husband's property mistake in court
- Court
- Cour de cassation
- Decided
- Sep 9, 2026
- Citation
- 24-19.178
- Judges
- Mme Champalaune (présidente)
AI breakdown
- A widow claimed that an error in her late husband's estate paperwork wrongly revoked her rights to a property.
- The Cour de cassation overturned the lower court's dismissal of her claim due to prescription rules.
- The key reason was that the refusal to correct the mistake, not the initial error, triggered the timing.
Outcome
Cassation
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