Article 52 — Order of Intestate Succession
- Where the deceased has left no valid testamentary disposition, or to the extent that the disposition does not exhaust the estate, the estate passes according to the following order:
- First order: the children of the deceased, in equal shares. The descendants of a predeceased child take that child’s share by representation.
- Second order: the parents of the deceased, in equal shares. If only one parent survives, that parent takes the whole share of this order.
- Third order: the siblings of the deceased, in equal shares. The descendants of a predeceased sibling take that sibling’s share by representation.
- Fourth order: the grandparents of the deceased, in equal shares.
- Fifth order: more remote relatives to the fourth degree of kinship.
- Each order excludes the succeeding orders. The estate passes to the next order only where no heir of the preceding order survives or accepts.
- Where no heir within any order survives or accepts, the estate passes to the State.
How to cite
CIVIL art. 52 — Article 52 — Order of Intestate Succession, Legal Codes of the Principality of Kaharagia.