What is the legitime of a child? It is one half of the estate of the deceased parent.

By way of a rough
illustration, if a person has P10 million, without parent or spouse but with one child, he can make a will
giving P5 million to his child and the other P5 million to charity or he can give all of it to his child. If he
does not make a will, all the P10 million will go to his child upon his death. If he had no spouse nor child,
legitimate or illegitimate, but his parents survive him, the parents are entitled to the whole estate and
each parent gets half. He can make a will, however, limiting his parents to their legitime of one-fourth
each while giving the other half to anyone.