Judicial Administration- is not essential when the deceased left no pending obligations.

The rights to the succession are transmitted to the heirs from the moment of death of their predecessor.
Article 777, NCC
Conditions for the transmission of successional rights
1. That indeed there has been a death (either actual or presumed);
2. That the rights or properties are indeed transmissible or descendible;
3. That the transferee is still alive, willing, is capacitated to inherit.
Kinds of Death
1. Actual death
2. Presumed Death
a. Ordinary presumption because of ordinary absence
i. Death is presumed to have occurred at the end of the 10- year or 5- year period as
the case may be. (Note: an absentee, shall be presumed dead for the purpose of
opening his succession)
ii. Extraordinary presumption because of extraordinary or qualified absence (Art.
391 of the Civil Code)
(note: in the both ordinary or extraordinary absences, the succession is only of
provisional character because there is always the chance that the absentee may
still be alive.