Short answer. Generally yes. Article 1087 of the Civil Code requires co-heirs to reimburse one another, at the time of partition, for useful and necessary expenses any of them paid on estate property, along with income or fruits they collected and any damage caused through malice or neglect. Necessary repairs on the property before partition normally fall within that duty.
What the law says
In the partition the co-heirs shall reimburse one another for the income and fruits which each one of them may have received from any property of the estate, for any useful and necessary expenses made upon such property, and for any damage thereto through malice or neglect.
Civil Code, Article 1087 — Reimbursing Income and Fruits. Read the full provision →
What Article 1087 settles at partition time
Article 1087 treats partition as the moment to square accounts among co-heirs over what happened to estate property while it was still undivided. In the partition the co-heirs shall reimburse one another for the income and fruits which each one of them may have received from any property of the estate, for any useful and necessary expenses made upon such property, and for any damage thereto through malice or neglect. Repairs you paid for out of your own funds fall squarely inside that list — they are exactly the kind of item the partition is meant to account for.
Why useful and necessary repairs qualify
The article names useful and necessary expenses made upon such property as one of the three items co-heirs must settle between themselves. Necessary repairs — the kind that preserve the property or prevent it from deteriorating — and useful expenses that genuinely improved it are treated as a cost the whole estate benefited from, not a personal expense one heir chose to absorb alone. That is why the law puts the burden of reimbursing that outlay on the co-heirs collectively, through the partition, rather than leaving it where it fell.
It runs both ways at partition
The same accounting cuts against you too. If you also collected rent, harvest, or other income and fruits from the property before partition, Article 1087 requires you to account for that to your co-heirs in the same settlement. And if any heir caused damage to estate property through malice or neglect, that heir owes for the damage. The reimbursement for your repairs is one entry in a larger mutual accounting, not a stand-alone claim to be settled separately from everything else that happened before the property was divided. Raising it as part of the partition, rather than as a later, isolated demand, is what Article 1087 contemplates.