Short answer. No. Expenses your parent paid for your support, education, or medical attendance — even for an extraordinary illness — along with apprenticeship costs, ordinary equipment, and customary gifts, are not subject to collation and do not have to be brought back into the estate when it is distributed among the heirs.
What the law says
Expenses for support, education, medical attendance, even in extraordinary illness, apprenticeship, ordinary equipment, or customary gifts are not subject to collation.
Civil Code, Article 1067 — Support and Customary Gifts Are Not Collated. Read the full provision →
What collation is for, and why these expenses are excluded
Collation is the process of adding certain gifts or advances a parent made to a compulsory heir during the parent's lifetime back into the computation of the estate, so that all heirs share fairly in what the parent actually had to give. This provision carves out specific categories of parental spending that are not treated as advances subject to that accounting. Support, education, and medical attendance are singled out because they are ordinary consequences of the parent-child relationship, not a preference given to one heir over another.
What falls within the exclusion
The statute names several specific items: support, education, medical attendance — expressly including attendance during an extraordinary illness — apprenticeship, ordinary equipment, and customary gifts. Tuition, medical bills, and everyday costs of raising and educating a child all fall within this list. Because these are treated as part of a parent's ordinary duty rather than a gift meant to advance one heir's share, they stay outside the collation computation entirely.
What this does not cover
This exclusion is limited to the categories the statute lists. It does not extend to a large cash gift unrelated to support or education, a business investment made in one child's favor, or property transferred outright to a child during the parent's lifetime — those kinds of transfers can still be subject to collation under other rules governing donations to compulsory heirs. If what you received went beyond ordinary support, education, or medical costs, whether it must be collated depends on those other rules, not on this provision.
Why this matters for sibling disputes over an estate
This provision often becomes relevant when siblings disagree over whether one of them received more from a parent than the others. A sibling who received more schooling, or whose medical needs cost the parent more over the years, is not automatically considered to have received an advance against that sibling's future inheritance. Because these particular expenses are excluded by law, they cannot be raised as a ground to reduce that heir's share, even where the amounts spent on different children turned out to be very unequal in practice.