4.8 Legal Provision on Succession

The Code's succession chapter (LAW 306's full treatment — the summary here): the intestate scheme — Class 1 heirs (the son, daughter, spouse; the grandchildren's representative claims), the Class 2+ tiers (the parents, brothers-sisters, and onward), the widow's/widower's and daughters' equal rights (the equalization the 11th Amendment began, the Code completed); the daughter-marriage question settled (no return-on-marriage condition); the self-acquired vs. hereditary property distinction's effect; the testamentary freedom's limits (the compulsory shares of family property — the will's power over self-acquired property only); the succession's procedure (the namasari mutation; the succession certificate). The critical study: the equal rules vs. the practice gap (the property-control patterns, the documentation's barriers to women's claiming).