Short answer. Yes. Article 1069 lists election expenses alongside debts, fines, and similar expenses as sums a parent paid that must be brought to collation. So money your parent spent funding your campaign for local office is treated the same way an unpaid debt paid on your behalf would be — it counts against your share.

What the law says

Any sums paid by a parent in satisfaction of the debts of his children, election expenses, fines, and similar expenses shall be brought to collation.

Civil Code, Article 1069 — Debts, Fines and Election Expenses Are Collated. Read the full provision →

What Article 1069 requires to be collated

Article 1069 states a single rule: any sums paid by a parent in satisfaction of the debts of his children, election expenses, fines, and similar expenses shall be brought to collation. Collation is the process of accounting for certain lifetime advances a parent made to a child when the parent's estate is eventually divided, so that a child who already received such an advance does not also take a full, uncounted share alongside siblings who received none.

Election expenses named alongside debts

The article lists election expenses in the same sentence as debts and fines, treating them as one of the specific categories that must be collated. That placement answers your question directly: money your parent paid to fund your campaign for local office is not treated as a separate, uncounted gift outside the collation rules — the article puts it in the same category as a debt your parent paid off on your behalf.

What collation actually means for your share

Being brought to collation means the sum is added back, at least on paper, to the estate for purposes of computing each heir's share, and then charged against the share of the heir who received it. So if your parent's payment of your election expenses is collated, the effect is similar to an unpaid debt being paid by the parent and then deducted from what you would otherwise inherit — you do not lose the benefit you already received, but it is accounted for against your eventual share.

The common thread: sums the parent actually paid

What ties debts, fines, election expenses, and similar expenses together under this article is that they are all sums the parent actually paid out on the child's behalf. The article is not concerned with gifts of property or other kinds of lifetime transfers it addresses elsewhere; it is specifically about money spent by the parent to cover these particular kinds of expenses for the child, which is exactly the category your campaign funding falls into. This rule binds the child who benefited and, through collation, protects co-heirs from effectively subsidizing that child's campaign a second time out of the shared estate.

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