The notification for opening the succession procedure is the administrative document required in the succession debate procedure, which takes place exclusively before the competent public notary or the court within whose territorial jurisdiction the deceased had their last domicile. Annex 24 does not certify the status of heir nor the right of ownership over the movable or immovable assets held by the deceased.

Proof of the status of legal or testamentary heir, as well as proof of the right of ownership of the accepting heirs over the assets in the succession estate in the share allotted to each, is established by the heir certificate issued by the public notary, according to Article 1132 of the Civil Code.