Legal consequences of declaring a person dead.

The consequences of declaring someone dead are the same as the consequences of a person's physical death.

From the date the decision declaring a person deceased enters into legal force:

- the person in respect of whom the decision was rendered is considered deceased; 

- inheritance is opened for this person's property, and the heirs are prohibited from alienating it for 5 years;

- this person's dependents are entitled to a survivor's pension.;

- the marriage is automatically terminated; and 

- the power of attorney's effect is terminated where the given person is a principal or an authorised person.

- Obligations directly related to the person declared dead that do not provide for legal succession (obligations to compensate for mutilation, other health damage, or death) are terminated.