- Statute
- Civil Code
- Article
- Art. 979
- Topic
- Legal or Intestate Succession
- Status
- In force, as amended
- Book
- BOOK III DIFFERENT MODES OF ACQUIRING OWNERSHIP Preliminary Provision
- Title
- TITLE IV SUCCESSION
- Chapter
- CHAPTER 3 Legal or Intestate Succession
- Formerly
- Art. 931a of the old Civil Code
- Year
- 1949
- Cited by
- Multiple Supreme Court decisions
The provision
Legitimate children and their descendants succeed the parents and other ascendants, without distinction as to sex or age, and even if they should come from different marriages. An adopted child succeeds to the property of the adopting parents in the same manner as a legitimate child. (931a)
Intellegal Wiki · In plain terms
Legitimate children and their descendants inherit from their parents and other ascendants regardless of sex or age, and even if they come from different marriages. An adopted child inherits from the adopting parents in the same way a legitimate child would.
An editorially maintained plain-language explanation of this provision — not legal advice.
As qualified: the successional rights of adopted children are now governed by the domestic adoption regime — RA 11642 (the Domestic Administrative Adoption and Alternative Child Care Act, 2022), which repealed the earlier RA 8552; an adoptee keeps the reciprocal successional rights of a legitimate child.
Cases applying this article
- Spouses Mariano (A.K.A. Quaky) v. Roscef Zuñiga Bernarte
- Justina Delmolin-Paloma v. Ester Delmolin-Magno
- Ana Joyce S. Reyes v. Hon. Cesar M. Sotero
- Sayson v. Court of Appeals G.R. No. 89224
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