Recently, the Shanghai High People's Court reported a case.
Zhang is the only child in the family, and when he was 20 years old, he ran away from home after a heated argument with his parents. Since then, his father Zhang Yong and mother Lin Min have also called the police to actively search, but they have never been successful, during which Zhang Yong's younger brother Zhang Yuan has taken care of his brother and sister-in-law.
After Lin Min's death, Zhang Yong became even more lonely in his later years.
Because his son's whereabouts were unknown for a long time, Zhang Yong applied to the people's court in 2021 to declare him dead. In the process of handling the case and subsequent cases, Xiao Zhang appeared.
Zhang Yong begged father and son to meet many times, but Xiao Zhang was always resolute not to meet.
In 2023, Zhang Yong passed away, Zhang Yuan dealt with his posthumous affairs, and took the initiative to contact Xiao Zhang, hoping that he would come forward to deal with the burial of Zhang Yong's ashes, but Xiao Zhang ignored it. After that, Xiao Zhang, as Zhang Yong's sole legal heir, received part of the bank deposit certificates in Zhang Yong's name.
Zhang Yuan sued the people's court, applying for property preservation of the estate in Zhang Yong's name, and demanded that Xiao Zhang be deprived of his inheritance rights and inherited by the second-order heirs. The court finally ruled that Xiao Zhang's actions constituted abandonment and that he should lose his inheritance rights in accordance with the law. Zhang Yong's inheritance was all inherited by his younger brother Zhang Yuan. Recently, the original verdict was upheld in the second instance of the case.
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Source: Elephant News