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Art. 888. Succession rights of descendants
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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.
Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
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