O pacto de mellora no dereito civil de Galicia

Abstract

[Resumo] A nova Lei 2/2006, de 14 de xuño, de Dereito Civil de Galicia supón unha cambio transcendental nas institucións propias do dereito sucesorio galego. Dentro de elas, o pacto de mellora entre ascendentes e descendentes sobre bens concretos supón un sistema de delación hereditaria pero sobre todo, unha nova forma de transmisión a título gratuíto de presente dos bens aos fillos e descendentes sen esperar ao falecemento do ascendente, nin renuncia á condición de lexitimario como sucede na apartación e, por suposto, por título de pacto sucesorio e non de doazón, en termos todo iso alleos a todo o sistema sucesorio do Código Civil e dunha grande importancia económica e social.

[Abstract] The new Law 2/2006, the 14th June on Galician Civil Law, involves a change of great importance in Galician succession law’s own institutions. Among them, the “beneficial improvement pact” among ancestors and descendants on concrete goods, leads to a system of hereditary denunciation but, mainly, to a new way of free transmission of the goods to children and other descendants without having to wait for the ancestor’s death or resigning to being the beneficiary of the “lexítima” (proportional share of the estate that passes by law to the family and dependants) as it would happen in the “apartación” (a heir gets goods from the estate before the death of the ascendant, but renounces to his condition of beneficiary of the “lexítima”) and, of course, by title of successive pact and not of donation, in terms of a great economic and social importance which are not known by the successive system of the Civil Code.