Short answer. No. Article 1065 of the Civil Code excuses your parent from collating — adding back into the estate for division — any property your grandparent gave directly to you. The gift was made to you, not to your parent, so it does not reduce or affect your parent's own share of your grandparent's inheritance.

What the law says

Parents are not obliged to bring to collation in the inheritance of their ascendants any property which may have been donated by the latter to their children.

Civil Code, Article 1065 — Parents Need Not Collate Gifts to Their Children. Read the full provision →

What collation means here

Collation is the accounting step that happens after your grandparent dies and their estate is divided among their heirs, including your parent as their child. Where a parent has personally received lifetime gifts from the person they are inheriting from, that value would ordinarily be added back into the pool before it is split among co-heirs, so no child ends up unfairly ahead of the others. Article 1065 addresses a different situation: gifts your grandparent made not to your parent, but to your parent's own child — meaning you.

Why the direction of the gift decides the outcome

The rule turns on who actually received the property. If your grandparent had given the gift to your parent directly, your parent would ordinarily have to bring its value back into the estate. But the statute says property which may have been donated by the latter to their children — the grandparent's gift to a grandchild — is not something your parent must collate, because your parent was never the recipient. The gift stays yours, and your parent's share of your grandparent's estate is worked out as though it had never been given.

What this exemption does not decide

This rule is narrow. It only settles whether your parent must add your gift to the pot when your grandparent's estate is divided among your grandparent's own heirs. It says nothing about whether you, as a grandchild, have any separate claim to your grandparent's estate yourself — that depends on facts this article does not address, such as whether your parent survives your grandparent. It also has no bearing on your parent's own estate later on: gifts your parent personally gives you during their own lifetime would be collated under the ordinary rules that apply between a parent and their own children, not this exception. Article 1064 fills that gap: if your parent died before your grandparent and you inherit in your parent's place by representation, you personally must collate what your parent would have brought had they survived, plus whatever you received from your grandparent. The Article 1065 exemption only holds while your parent inherits in their own right.

The rule flips if you inherit in your parent's place

Article 1065 assumes your parent is the one inheriting. Article 1064 governs the other case — where your parent is gone and you take his or her place. Grandchildren who survive with their uncles, aunts or cousins and inherit from their grandparents in representation of their father or mother must bring to collation all that their parents, if alive, would have been obliged to bring, even though those grandchildren never received that property themselves. The same article adds that they must also collate what they personally received from the decedent during his lifetime, unless the testator provided otherwise and the legitime of the co-heirs is not prejudiced. So the gift your parent would never have to account for can become yours to account for, if you end up inheriting in your parent's stead rather than alongside him.

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