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A: Answer Directly L: Legal Basis A: Application C: Conclusion

The document provides an example of how to use the ALAC framework to structure legal answers. ALAC stands for: A - Answer Directly L - Legal Basis A - Application C - Conclusion The document then provides a sample question and uses the ALAC framework to analyze whether a child can inherit from their father who died before the child was born but after the mother was pregnant for 6 months. It cites the relevant civil code articles on when a fetus is considered a person and born for purposes of inheritance.

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A: Answer Directly L: Legal Basis A: Application C: Conclusion

The document provides an example of how to use the ALAC framework to structure legal answers. ALAC stands for: A - Answer Directly L - Legal Basis A - Application C - Conclusion The document then provides a sample question and uses the ALAC framework to analyze whether a child can inherit from their father who died before the child was born but after the mother was pregnant for 6 months. It cites the relevant civil code articles on when a fetus is considered a person and born for purposes of inheritance.

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  • ALAC Framework
  • Legal Principles and Applications

ALAC

How to frame your answers. Use ALAC.

A : Answer Directly (Yes or No or a specific answer)

L : Legal Basis (law or jurisprudence)

A : Application (State the facts, apply the law or


jurisprudence to the facts)

C : Conclusion (State your conclusion in support


of your answer)

Example:

John and Marsha are newlyweds. Marsha got pregnant.


On the 6th month of Marsha’s pregnancy, John died in a
vehicular accident.

(a) Will the child be able to inherit from John? Why?


IT DEPENDS on whether the child is eventually born
alive. Under the law, birth determines civil personality;
and an unborn child cannot inherit for lack of civil
personality. However, a fetus can be considered born for
all purposes that are favorable to it, like being entitled to
an inheritance, provided it is eventually born alive, or if it
had an intra-uterine life of less than 7 months, it should
stay alive for more than 24 hours after its complete
delivery from the mother’s womb. In the given problem,
the circumstances of the birth are not stated. Thus, the
capacity of the fetus to inherit would be determined by
the circumstances at the time of its complete delivery
from the mother’s womb.

ALAC

Article 40. Birth determines personality; but the


conceived child shall be considered born for all
purposes that are favorable to it, provided it be born
later with the conditions specified in the following
article. (29a)
Article 41. For civil purposes, the foetus is considered
born if it is alive at the time it is completely delivered
from the mother's womb. However, if the foetus had
an intra-uterine life of less than seven months, it is not
deemed born if it dies within twenty-four hours after
its complete delivery from the maternal womb. (30a)

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