Legacy maintenance agreement is made between the legacy and dependants, determine a bequest and support civil rights and obligations of the agreement. This \"dependants\" refers to the legal heirs of other citizens or collectively owned organization. This agreement provides that the dependants to honour obligations legacy life died and was buried, and bequeathed his estate after death made.
Legacy maintenance agreement is in China\'s rural \"five guarantees\" system on the basis of the formation and development. The inheritance law of China summed up the experience, and confirmation of the legal form to be sure. Legacy maintenance agreement is one of the inherited legislation of our country to create, with Chinese characteristics.
According to the provisions of the law of succession, legacy support agreements can be divided into two categories:
Legacy maintenance agreement between those citizens. The first paragraph of article 31st of inheritance law \"citizens of legacy support agreements with dependants. In accordance with the agreement, support person of the citizen\'s obligation to produce died and was buried, enjoy the right to receive bequests. \"Generally speaking, the legacy people here not there is no child or children, independent life difficulties and need someone else to take care of the elderly. He enjoys the right to financial support, has died his estate bequeathed to dependants of obligations. Where dependants are generally legacy family, neighborhood, or other relatives and friends. He has to support legacy people, assume its obligation to produce died and was buried, enjoy the right to accept the testator bequeathed property. Is to be emphasized here: legacy support of dependants not in the agreement is the legal heir, as statutory heirs and heirs are statutory succession of mutual support and mutual relationship of rights and obligations without being in the form of agreement to determine.
Another is the legacy maintenance agreement between citizens and the collective organization. The Inheritance Act 31st second paragraph \"citizens of legacy support agreements with collective organizations. In accordance with the agreement, collective organizations the civic obligation to produce died and was buried, enjoy the right to receive bequests. \"Legacy of people here are generally lack the ability to work and lack of sources of livelihood of those who have no kith and kin and cannot support themselves\" five guarantees family taken care of by the people \' s communes in five ways \"the old man, who enjoyed their collective duty to provide for the organization. Collective organizations, generally refers to the \"five guarantees family taken care of by the people \' s communes in five ways\", assume its obligation to produce died and was buried, enjoy the \"five guarantees family taken care of by the people \' s communes in five ways\" bequests of property rights.
