A lump sum (som ineens) is a question for the notary

Article 4:37 of the Dutch Civil Code (Burgerlijk Wetboek) can in some cases give a child a claim to a lump sum (som ineens). The ground can be care, upbringing, study or work in the household. The article names those directions. The file does not decide whether this child falls under them. That is a qualification. Set a task to ask the notary whether this claim plays here, for which child, and on which ground from that list. Leave the amount empty. Do not fill in an estimate because the care lasted long or the study was expensive. An empty amount with that task is the whole record until the notary answers. There is a statutory period for this claim. Do not name that period in months and do not calculate it out into a date you invent yourself.

The item, if you create it at all, names the child and the ground put forward in the words the family uses, plus the statement that the notary has not yet confirmed the ground and the amount. That is an open line, not an award. It does not belong in a letter to the other heirs as a fixed share. A draft that names a sum stays a draft and stays outside the portal. Internal details about the care or the study may stand in an internal note, concrete and without an amount. Staff see that note in the workspace. Heirs do not see it. The amounts layer stays off for this claim. Publishing an empty field as a demand is just as premature as publishing an invented figure.

Do not compare this sum with a share and not with a bequest (legaat). It is a different legal figure. It does not replace the description of the estate inventory and it does not strike out any other item. Debts, values on the date of death and a will, if there is one, keep their own lines. The task to the notary asks whether article 4:37 gives a claim here, not for an amount the office can already use. If an answer comes, you record that answer with the date and the document. Until that day the amount field stays empty, even if someone puts an invoice for a course of study in the folder. An invoice is then at most an annex to the question. It is not the lump sum. The notary says whether it does anything for the claim.

Ervazo can store an empty item for this lump sum, linked to the child and to the task for the notary. Ervazo records and calculates as a worksheet. It fills in no amount with article 4:37 and it starts no period. That is not advice. It files nothing and it pays nothing. The program does not award the claim and it does not pay it out. You do not name the statutory period in months on this worksheet. The notary qualifies whether the ground and the person fit here. Until that answer is there, the worksheet does not count this item. An empty line with a task is the right state. A round amount would be a judgment the file does not have.