[[1] Tadzher, Civil Law of National Republic of Bulgaria, General part, Chapter II, 1973, page 23, which provisions that only the one who is born capable of being alive shall have succession rights. According to Pavlova, Civil Law, General part, 2002, p. 236, the time of birth is when the embryo is separated from the mother’s body and it is necessary to be cut the cord blood and all of the actions required by the medical science to be done for a new legal person to occur. In order to have legal personality the child shall have breathed through his lungs and it doesn’t matter how long the new-born is alive. The Persons and Family Act doesn’t set out a requirement for the child born alive to be viable. Section 2 of the Succession Act provides this requirement in order for the child to have succession rights. See and Ilieva, R. Course in Civil Law, Generality, Volume 1, Ciela, Sofia, 2015, pp. 181-188.]Search in Google Scholar
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[[3] The Act amending and supplemending the Civil Registration Act was promulgated by Official Journal, issue 55 of 2015.]Search in Google Scholar
[[4] The Ordenance № 19 of 22nd December 2014 for the medical standard of Professional Organization of Medical Nurses, Midwives and Associated Medical Specialists Guild Act was promulgated by Official Journal, issue 106 of 2014 and repealed by Official Journal, issue 22 of 2017.]Search in Google Scholar
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[[6] Decision № 11894 of 17th March 2016 of the Supreme Administrative Court was promulgated by Official Journal, issue 22 and enacted on 14th March 2017.]Search in Google Scholar
[[7] The questions of the legal persons, legal personality and legal capacity according to Bulgarian Civil Law are not discussed in the article.]Search in Google Scholar
