Succession and Testament – Who is called to be an heir?
Art. 881. Representation: effect. Representation is a fiction of the law, the effect of which is to put the representative in the place, degree, and rights of the person represented.
Art. 888. Succession rights of descendants. Descendants succeed to the property of their ascendants. They take in equal portions and by heads if they are in the same degree. They take by roots if all or some of them succeed by representation.
