adult, the adop ve parents may request the adoptee to compensate for the expenses incurred to raise the adoptee during the adop on period. Where dissolu on of an adop ve rela onship is required by the natural parents of the adoptee, the adop ve parents may request the natural parents of the adoptee to appropriately compensate for the expenses incurred to raise the adoptee during the adop on period, unless the adop ve rela onship is dissolved because the adop ve parents maltreat or desert the adoptee. Book Six Succession Chapter I General Rules Ar cle 1119 This Book regulates the civil-law rela ons arising from succession. Ar cle 1120 The State protects a natural person’s right to inheritance. Ar cle 1121 Succession begins upon the death of a decedent. Where two or more persons with the right to inherit each other’s estate die in the same incident and it is di cult to determine the me of each person’s death, the person without any other successor is presumed to have predeceased those with other successor(s). Where the aforemen oned deceased persons are from di erent genera ons and all of them have other successor(s), the person of the elder genera on is presumed to have predeceased those of the younger genera on; or, where the deceased are in the same genera on, they are presumed to have died simultaneously and no succession occurs between or among them. Ar cle 1122 An estate refers to the property lawfully owned by a natural person upon death. An estate not inheritable according to the provisions of law or based on the nature of the estate may not be inherited. Ar cle 1123 A er succession opens, it shall be processed as an intestate succession, or where there is a will, as a testate succession by the successor(s) or donee(s)-by-will; or be processed in accordance with the agreement on testamentary gi for inter vivos support, where there is such an agreement. Ar cle 1124 A successor who, a er the opening of succession, disclaims an inheritance shall manifest his decision in wri ng before the estate is disposed of. In the absence of such a manifesta on, he is deemed to have accepted the inheritance. A donee-by-will shall, within 60 days a er he learns of the testamentary gi , manifest his decision to accept or disclaim it. In the absence of such a manifesta on within the speci ed period, he is deemed to have disclaimed the gi . Ar cle 1125 A successor is disinherited if he has commi ed any one of the following acts: (1) inten onally killing the now decedent; (2) killing any other successor in gh ng over the estate; (3) abandoning the now decedent, or maltrea ng him and the circumstances are serious; (4) forging, tampering with, concealing, or destroying the will, and the circumstances are serious; or (5) through fraud or duress, compelling or interfering with the testator to write, alter, or revoke a will, and the circumstances are serious. A successor who had commi ed one of the acts listed in Subparagraphs (3) through (5) of the preceding paragraph shall not be disinherited if he truly repented and amended his ways, and was forgiven by the now decedent or was therea er appointed as one of the successors in the decedent’s will. A donee-by-will who has commi ed the act listed in the rst paragraph of this Ar cle loses his right to receive the testamentary gi . Chapter II Intestate Succession ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ft ti fi fi tt ti ti ti ti ti ft ti ti fi ft tt ft ti tt ft ti ti ft ti ft ti ti ti ti ft ti ti ffi ti ti ff ti ti ti ti 121