P.R. Laws tit. 32, § 2302
Persons filing claims adverse to the petitioner must file their answers containing specified statements of their claims against the petitioner and against each other. When the case is ready for trial, the judge shall, on the application of any party, set the hearing for a day and hour not less than five (5) nor more than eight (8) days thereafter. On the appointed day the judge shall hear the oral testimony, look into the evidence submitted by the claimants in person or by their attorneys, and shall, within six (6) days thereafter, pronounce judgment from which an appeal might be taken. Any claimant may make his appearance at any stage of the proceedings for the declaration of heirship, provided that the prosecution thereof shall not be delayed by such dilatory appearance. Final judgment having been rendered any claimant who has had no notice of the proceedings and did not appear therein and who has a well-founded right to the inheritance may establish and enforce his right against those who have been judicially declared heirs thereby.
History —Code Civil Proc., 1933, § 553.