12 Heirs to the Inheritance

The statutory scheme (the Code's Inheritance Chapter — by principle, the classes):1. Class One: the immediate family — the surviving spouse, the children (including the adopted — Unit 5), the parents: the equal shares within the class (the spouse's-and-children's concurrent taking; the mother's-and-father's equal standing — the gender-equal design);2. Class Two: the siblings, the grandchildren-and-remoter descendants (the predeceased child's children taking the stirpal share — the representation principle);3. Class Three (the remoter classes): the near relatives in the statutory order (the grandparents, uncles-aunts, nephews-nieces) — the class-by-class exhaustion;4. The default: the state's-and-local body's escheat (the heirless property). The scheduled-tribal-and-customary layer: the customary successions of the recognized communities where the statute defers (the mukhiya system's-and-guthi's survival questions — Property Law's chapters, Semester 3).