Article 1032

Relationship by blood involves the following order of precedence first class: father, mother, children and children of children; Second class grandfathers and grandmothers, brothers and sisters and their children; Third class : paternal uncles, paternal aunts, maternal uncles and maternal aunts and their children. The degree of relationship by blood in each class is determined by the number of generations in that class. For example, in the first class, the relation of the father and the mother to their children comes first and the relationship of children between themselves comes second in the same way in the second class, the relationship of brother and sister with grandfather and grandmother comes first and that of the children of brother and sister with grandfather comes second. And in the third class, the relation of the uncle and the maternal uncle, and that of the paternal aunt and the maternal aunt comes first, and that of their children comes second.