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Inheritance and estates

Inheritance and deposits: proving the source of funds

Supreme Court · Civil Chamber · STS 1253/2025
· Note published and reviewed: 2026-10-27

The issue and the court’s approach

When liquidating community property before distributing an estate, the court upheld the community character of deposits whose alleged separate origin was unproved.

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Supreme Court · Civil Chamber · STS 1253/2025 · 2025-09-16

This is an original explanatory note. The cited material is official supreme court summary / chronicle. Where a summary or study is cited, this note does not claim a full-text review of the judgment.

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General information on Spanish law. Application depends on the facts, applicable legislation and subsequent developments. English text is explanatory, not an official translation.

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