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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:888"
article_number: "888"
status: active
heading: "Succession rights of descendants"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title I › Chapter 2"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=111039"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1981
    act_number: 919
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1982-01-01
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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.