Section 2: Reduction of excessive gifts

The renouncer may only request the revocation of his renunciation if: 1° The person he is entitled to inherit from does not fulfil his maintenance obligations towards him; 2° On the day the succession is opened, he is in a state of need that would disappear if he had not renounced his reservatory rights; 3° The beneficiary of the renunciation has been guilty of a crime or an offence against…

Revocation never takes place ipso jure. The application for revocation is made within one year, from the day of the opening of the succession, if it is based on neediness. It is made within one year, from the day of the act imputed by the renouncing party or from the day on which the act could have been known by his heirs, if it is based on failure to fulfil…

The renunciation may be set up against the representatives of the renouncing party.