9 37. In the light of the above, the Court, taking all the special circumstances of the case into account, concludes that it is fair to award an indemnity of US$20,000.00 to each of the families of the deceased and to each of the survivors. IX 38. The Court has ruled in previous cases that the indemnity which should be paid for the arbitrary deprivation of a person's life is a right to which those directly injured by that fact are entitled. 39. At the Court’s request, the Commission, on the basis of data provided by the victims’ various representatives, presented a series of lists containing the names of the persons who it claims to be the victims' offspring, parents and spouses. For that reason, it has not been possible for the Court to establish an exact list of the victims' successors at the time of their deaths, owing to the contradictions and inaccuracies found in the information supplied. Consequently, in drawing up the list that appears in paragraph 42 below, the Court has been obliged to collate the various lists produced by the Commission and the victims’ representatives. 40. As the Court has also declared on previous occasions, it is a norm common to most legal systems that a person's successors are his or her children. It is also generally accepted that the spouse has a share in the assets acquired during a marriage; some legal systems also grant the spouse inheritance rights along with the children (Aloeboetoe et al. Case. Reparations, supra 14, para. 62). However, the Court notes that one of the victims, Julio Pastor Ceballos, had a female companion as well as a wife, and had fathered children with both. As far as they are concerned, the Court deems it just to divide the indemnity between the two. X 41. As regards the distribution of the amounts fixed for the various types of compensation, the Court considers that it would be equitable to apply the following criteria which are in keeping with previous decisions (Aloeboetoe et al. Case. Reparations, supra 14, para. 97). a. Reparations for material damages shall be divided as follows: one third to the wife and two thirds to the children, to be divided among them in equal parts. b. Reparations for moral damages shall be awarded as follows: one half to the children, one quarter to the wife, and the remaining quarter to the parents. c. If there is no wife, but a female companion, the portion that would have gone to the former shall be awarded to the latter. d. As far as reparations for material damages are concerned, if there is neither wife nor female companion, that portion shall be awarded to the parents. In the case of