If a deceased does not leave descendants, parents, siblings (or their descendants), or a spouse not judicially separated, more remote ascendants succeed to the deceased’s separate property.1 The ascendants in the nearest degree take to the exclusion of more remote ascendants.2 If there are ascendants of the same degree in both the paternal and maternal lines, the property is divided into two equal shares, one of which goes to the ascendants on the paternal side and the other of which goes to the ascendants on the maternal side, whether the number of ascendants on each side be equal or not.3 In this case, the ascendants in each line inherit by heads.4