The creditors of the estate declare their claims by notifying their title to the elected domicile of the estate. They are paid under the conditions provided for in Article 796. Claims whose amount has not yet been definitively determined are declared provisionally on the basis of an assessment.
Failure to declare within fifteen months of the publication provided for in Article 788, unsecured claims on the estate’s assets are extinguished with regard to the estate. This provision also applies to guarantors and co-obligors, as well as to persons who have given an independent guarantee in respect of the claim thus extinguished.