Cap. 16 Art. 811Succession by children and descendants.

(1) Saving the provisions of article 815, children or other descendants succeed to their parents or other ascendants without distinction of sex, and whether they are born or conceived in marriage or otherwise and whether they are of the same or of different marriages.

(2) They succeed when they are all in the first per capita degree; they succeed per stirpes when all, or some of them, take by representation.

§ II. OF SUCCESSION BY ASCENDANTS AND COLLATERALS