{"id":2812,"date":"2026-03-13T14:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:25:11","slug":"challenging-a-will-for-breach-of-the-forced-share-800000-euros-recovered-for-the-heirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/case-studies-typical-scenarios\/challenging-a-will-for-breach-of-the-forced-share-800000-euros-recovered-for-the-heirs\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenging a will for breach of the forced share: 800,000 euros recovered for the heirs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hypothetical case study developed on the basis of our experience with families dealing with international matters, intended to illustrate the type of operations the Firm is able to structure and manage for clients with a similar profile; the scenario does not refer to any specific case actually handled.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A father dies leaving a holographic will that assigns almost the entire estate to his second wife and to her children, reducing the two children of his first marriage to a symbolic bequest of 20,000 euros each on an estate exceeding three million. The two children discover that they have, in effect, been disinherited: not formally, because Italian law does not allow the disinheritance of forced heirs, but substantially, through testamentary provisions that empty out their reserved share. The law protects them with the action for reduction, a powerful but technically complex instrument: it requires the reconstruction of the deceased&#8217;s entire estate (including gifts made during his lifetime), the calculation of the breached forced share, the identification of the provisions to be reduced and the order in which to reduce them, and the actual return of the assets or their cash equivalent. An action that clashes with those who received those assets and do not intend to return them, with contested property valuations, with hidden gifts to be reconstructed, and with a limitation period that is running. This is the case of two brothers who would entrust our Firm with the protection of the rights that their father&#8217;s will had attempted to erase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypothetical case study developed on the basis of our experience with families dealing with international matters, intended to illustrate the type of operations the Firm is able to structure and manage for clients with a similar profile; the scenario does not refer to any specific case actually handled. A father dies leaving a holographic will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-studies-typical-scenarios"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}