Nowadays, tendencies of marriage and family relations in many foreign countries show that factual family relationships are also obtaining great importance along with official marriage between spouses. This fact, in consequence, is influencing on the couple’s rights to inherit. Rapid interstate integration and globalization make it necessary to improve the institute of spouses’ inheritance within inheritance law, that is characterized as a conservative sphere of law. The aim of this research is to improve existing inheritance legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan by defining the criteria for declaring factual termination of matrimony and studying the scope of spouses’ rights to inherit in such occasion.

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