Article 245 of Personal Status Law

A bequest to an unborn child shall be valid in the following cases: 1 - If the testator acknowledges the existence of the pregnancy at the time of the bequest and the child is born alive within three hundred and sixty-five days or less from the time of and the bequest. 2 - If the testator does not acknowledge the existence of the pregnancy and the child is born alive within no more than two hundred and seventy days from the time of the bequest, unless the pregnant woman at the time of the bequest is observing a waiting period following death or irrevocable separation; in that case, the bequest shall be valid if the child is born alive within three hundred and sixty-five days or less from the time of death or irrevocable separation. If the bequest is to an unborn child of a specified person, its validity requires, in addition to the foregoing, that the child's descent from that specified person be established. The yield of the bequeathed property shall be held until the child is born alive, whereupon it shall belong to the child. Law Index 1164 Home Page Personal Status Law Law No. 51 of 1984 concerning Personal Status