Short answer. Yes. The Civil Code says sums paid by a parent in satisfaction of a child's debts, election expenses, fines and similar expenses are brought to collation. Money spent clearing what you personally owed is treated as an advance on your share, not as an ordinary act of parental help.
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 collation actually does
Collation is not a demand that you repay anything. It means the value is added back notionally when the estate is computed, so that the shares can be worked out as though the money had never left, and then charged against your own portion. The effect is that you draw correspondingly less from what physically remains. The rule exists to keep children equal: one child whose obligations were settled out of the family's money has already received part of what was coming to him.
The items the article names
The list is specific and slightly odd-looking until you see what unites it — debts of his children, election expenses, fines, and similar expenses. Each is a liability that was the child's own to bear. A loan you contracted, a penalty imposed on you, the cost of your own candidacy: the parent who paid discharged your obligation, not theirs. The closing words and similar expenses extend the rule to comparable payments rather than opening it to every peso a parent ever spent.
What is not collated under this article
Do not read the provision as covering ordinary parental spending. Support, upbringing, and the everyday cost of raising a child discharge the parent's own duty, not the child's obligation, and they are a different matter from the liabilities this article lists. The distinction to hold onto is whose debt was being paid. That is also where most family arguments actually sit — one sibling characterising school fees or living expenses as an advance, when the article is aimed at something narrower.
Proving the payments
A collation claim needs documents, not recollection: the loan agreement or judgment showing the obligation was yours, and the receipt, bank transfer or release showing your parent paid it, with dates. Dates matter because collated items are valued as at the time the payment was made. Assemble the estate inventory alongside them, since collation only changes the arithmetic once the whole computation is done. Raise it during settlement and have the figures checked before signing a partition.