While existing legislation respects an heir’s right to renounce inheritance, judicial practice has witnessed numerous cases where such renunciation severely infringes upon the legitimate rights and interests of the heir’s creditors. As a right encompassing both property and personal attributes, the right of inheritance, though hierarchically superior to creditor’s rights, should not permit heirs to renounce their inheritance at the expense of creditor’s lawful interests. It is therefore necessary to impose appropriate restrictions on an heir’s renunciation of inheritance. Given that the right of revocation under the current Civil Code is insufficient to effectively restrain debtor-heirs from renouncing their inheritance, a two-fold approach is proposed. On the one hand, the term “statutory obligations” should be interpreted broadly to include not only duties of support, maintenance, and alimony, but also general debt repayment obligations and estate management responsibilities that heirs ought to fulfill. On the other hand, where an heir’s renunciation of inheritance impedes the fulfillment of such “statutory obligations”, the renunciation should be deemed invalid.