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

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