What is a Succession?

There are two kinds of successions: testate and intestate.

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1. Testate Succession means the person who died had a Will. A testate successor (person or people who will get the property of the person who died) is called a legatee.

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2. Intestate Succession means the person  who died did not have a Will. An Intestate successor (person or people who will get the property of the person who died) is called an heir. 

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Succession is the transmission of the estate of the deceased to his successors. The successors this have the right to take possession of the estate of the deceased after complying with applicable provisions of law.

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The estate of a deceased means the property, rights, and obligations that a person leaves after his death, whether the property exceeds the charges or the charges exceed the property, or whether he has only left charges without any property. The estate includes not only the rights and obligations of the deceased as they exist at the time of death, but all that has accrued thereto since death, and the new charges to which it becomes subject.