The notification for the opening of 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 in whose territorial jurisdiction the deceased had their last domicile. Annex 24 does not certify the status of heir nor the ownership right over movable or immovable property held by the deceased.

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