Key legal question
Whether the lawyer breached the duty of diligence by failing to file a timely inheritance action
Extracted holding
Yes. The lawyer confused the relevant limitation periods and should have filed in time to preserve the client's inheritance rights.
Extracted reasoning
A mandatar must act with due care; for nullity/reduction claims the one-year period ran from knowledge of the testamentary disposition, and negotiations did not justify inactivity because proceedings could have been filed and then suspended.