Texas Estates Code - EST § 201.101. Determination of Per Capita with Representation Distribution

(a) The children, descendants, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, or other relatives of an intestate who stand in the first or same degree of relationship alone and come into the distribution of the intestate's estate take per capita, which means by persons.

(b) If some of the persons described by Subsection (a) are dead and some are living, each descendant of those persons who have died is entitled to a distribution of the intestate's estate.  Each descendant inherits only that portion of the property to which the parent through whom the descendant inherits would be entitled if that parent were alive.