Las asignaciones forzosas en la Ley Civil ecuatoriana

Abstract

The present work was prepared with the intetion of determining which are the forced assignments that can be realiced to respect the testator in his will, as in the case that the deceased has dependents and a surviving spouce with a right to the conjugal portion, has the obligation to protect them due they can not be homeless after his death, then the testator should prepared this assiggnments in favor of the above mentioned people, in additon our law is pronouncing on this situation, to establish the percentage and determine who are the beneficiaries of the patrimony of the deceased If the testator ignores these legal provisions, will be the same law which supplement their willingness even to the damage of the express testamentary expressions, and divided the heritage of the deceased into four parts which are: a quarter by concept of improvements, the fourth part by concept of legitimate and the fourth part of free disposition, in this way, we can say that the law limits the Faculty of disposition of the property that the owner has.