Short answer. No. Article 1052 of the Civil Code is explicit that once your creditors accept the inheritance in your name to protect their credits, any excess after covering their claims does not go back to you — it is instead adjudicated to whoever else would be entitled to it under the Civil Code's succession rules.

What the law says

If the heir repudiates the inheritance to the prejudice of his own creditors, the latter may petition the court to authorize them to accept it in the name of the heir.

Civil Code, Article 1052 — Repudiation That Prejudices Creditors. Read the full provision →

What the law says

The acceptance shall benefit the creditors only to an extent sufficient to cover the amount of their credits.

Civil Code, Article 1052 — Repudiation That Prejudices Creditors. Read the full provision →

What the law says

The excess, should there be any, shall in no case pertain to the renouncer, but shall be adjudicated to the persons to whom, in accordance with the rules established in this Code, it may belong.

Civil Code, Article 1052 — Repudiation That Prejudices Creditors. Read the full provision →

Why your creditors can accept on your behalf

Article 1052 exists to stop a debtor from dodging creditors by walking away from an inheritance. It provides that if the heir repudiates the inheritance to the prejudice of his own creditors, the latter may petition the court to authorize them to accept it in the name of the heir. Repudiating an inheritance is normally your own free choice, but the law will not let that choice be used specifically to keep an asset out of your creditors' reach — if renouncing the inheritance genuinely prejudices them, they can go to court and ask to accept it for you instead.

The acceptance only reaches your debts

The creditors' acceptance is not a blank authorization to take the whole inheritance for themselves. Article 1052 limits it precisely: the acceptance shall benefit the creditors only to an extent sufficient to cover the amount of their credits. Once what is owed to them is satisfied out of the inherited property, their interest in that property stops there — they cannot use the court-authorized acceptance as a device to collect more than they are actually owed, or to keep control of the inheritance once their claims are paid.

Where any leftover value goes

This is the part that answers your question directly. The law states that the excess, should there be any, shall in no case pertain to the renouncer, but shall be adjudicated to the persons to whom, in accordance with the rules established in this Code, it may belong. Having repudiated the inheritance, you are treated as having given it up entirely, and the creditors' intervention exists only to protect them, not to hand the property back to you through the back door once their debts are paid. Whoever the Civil Code's ordinary succession rules would place next in line receives the excess instead.

The logic behind excluding the renouncer

The rule keeps a repudiation consistent with itself. If you could recover any leftover value after your creditors were paid, repudiation would stop functioning as a real renunciation and would instead become a way to shield assets from creditors while still eventually benefiting from them. By sending the excess to whoever else is entitled to it under the succession rules — often other heirs — Article 1052 makes sure the creditors' remedy serves only its intended purpose: satisfying what is actually owed to them, nothing more.

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