Mariana del Socorro, Martín, Nicolás and María Belén Kodama requested to carry out a provisional inventory and to seize personal property.
nephews of Mary Kodamaexecutor and widow of the writer Jorge Luis Borgesdeceased nine days ago presumably without leaving will to order the fate of that invaluable literary legacythey appeared before the Justice in order to be recognized as heirsconfirmed this Tuesday to Télam the lawyer Fernando Soto.
“I’m relieved”told Télam, Soto, who was for years the legal representative of the translator, teacher, writer and executor of Borgesand added: “The nephews of Mary Kodama they introduced themselves as heirs before him Civil Court number 94“.
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“This it makes me happy and relieves my spiritthat the nephews have presented themselves as heirs opens a new stage in the succession file“, asserted the lawyer, who on Monday made a court filing in the same court denouncing the possible vacancy of the inheritance with the intention, as announced in that press conference, that, “if there were heirs”encourage them to become known.
After the death of kodamaon March 26 due to a respiratory insufficiencyit was put into play who would be in charge of the rights to the work of Borges. However, in the last hours, his nephews Mariana del Socorro, Martín, Nicolás and María Belén Kodamasons of his brother Jorgenow deceased, requested “declaration of heirs is issued”.
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According to reports, in the presentation they requested a interim inventory and seize property furniture as literary works, awards, award, manuscripts, photos, journalistic material and Titles of property of literary and historical value that must be safeguarded.
Soto explained that “the nephews are responsible for requesting a administrator and the protection of those assets“, and clarified that, “although it would be a practical decision“for the plaintiffs to contact him, they are not required to do so by law.
Source: Ambito
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