Civil Transactions Law

1. In determining the degree of lineal kinship, each generation of descendants up to the ancestor shall be counted as a degree without counting such ancestor. As for collateral kinship, the degree of kinship shall be counted by the number of generations of descendants upwards from one descendant to the common ancestor and then downwards from the common ancestor to the other descendant. Each generation of descendants, excluding the common ancestor, shall be counted as a degree of kinship. 2. The relatives of a spouse shall be considered of the same type and degree of kinship in relation to the other spouse.