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La. Ch. Code art. 1009 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1009
Disclosure of information in court records
Status: in_force

A. A child whose parent's rights have been terminated and who has not been subsequently adopted may have access to the records of the termination of parental rights action as provided by Chapter 3 of Title IV.

B. A child whose parent's rights have been terminated and who has been subsequently adopted may have access to the records of the termination of parental rights action only as provided by Articles 1010 through 1013.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §10, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 1997, No. 256, §1.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 534 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 534
Special grounds for motion to quash information
Status: in_force

A motion to quash an information may also be based on one or more of the following grounds:

(1) The information was not signed by the district attorney; or was not properly filed.

(2) The offense is not one for which prosecution can be instituted by an information.
La. Civ. Code art. 2437 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2437
Periodic allowance.
Status: in_force

When, during the administration of the succession, it appears that the surviving spouse will be entitled to the marital portion, he has the right to demand and receive a periodic allowance from the succession representative.

The amount of the allowance is fixed by the court in which the succession proceeding is pending. If the marital portion, as finally fixed, is less than the allowance, the surviving spouse is charged with the deficiency.

Acts 1979, No. 710, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 557 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 557
Possession and use of the things.
Status: in_force

The usufructuary takes the things in the state in which they are at the commencement of the usufruct.

Acts 1976, No. 103, §1.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 102 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 102
Autopsy
Status: in_force

The coroner may perform an autopsy in any death case or cause one to be performed by a competent physician. He shall do so:

(1) When there is a reasonable probability that the violation of a criminal statute has contributed to the death;

(2) When ordered by the court, which order may be issued ex parte by the court either on its own motion or on application by the district attorney; or

(3) In all other cases provided by law.

Acts 1987, No. 878, §2.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 2722 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 2722
Advertisement of sale
Status: in_force

After the seizure of the property, the sheriff shall proceed to advertise the sale of the property, in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 2331.
La. Ch. Code art. 1468 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1468
Informal voluntary admission
Status: in_force

A. In the discretion of the director, any minor with mental illness or minor suffering from substance abuse, who is sixteen years of age or older and who desires admission to a treatment facility for diagnosis or treatment of a psychiatric disorder or substance abuse, may be admitted upon the minor patient's request without a formal application.

B. Any minor patient admitted pursuant to this Article shall have the right to leave the treatment facility at any time during the normal day-shift hours of operation, which shall include but not be limited to nine a.m. to five p.m.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §14, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2014, No. 811, §33, eff. June 23, 2014.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 153 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 153
Recusal on court's own motion
Status: in_force

A. A judge may recuse himself in any cause in which a ground for recusal exists, whether or not a motion for his recusal has been filed by a party.

B. A district judge may recuse himself in any cause objecting to the candidacy or contesting the election for any office in which the district or jurisdiction of such office lies wholly within the judicial district of the court on which the district judge serves.

C. Prior to the cause being allotted to another judge, a judge who recuses himself for any reason shall contemporaneously file in the record the order of recusal and written reasons that provide the factual basis for recusal under Article 151. The judge shall also provide a copy of the recusal and the written reasons therefor to the judicial administrator of the supreme court.

Acts 2010, No. 262, §1; Acts 2021, No. 143, §1.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 2673 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 2673
Proceeding against legal representative
Status: in_force

When the property of the original debtor is under the administration of a legal representative, the executory proceeding may be brought against his legal representative, and no other person need be made a party to the proceeding.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 622 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 622
Grounds for change of venue
Status: in_force

A change of venue shall be granted when the applicant proves that by reason of prejudice existing in the public mind or because of undue influence, or that for any other reason, a fair and impartial trial cannot be obtained in the parish where the prosecution is pending.

In deciding whether to grant a change of venue the court shall consider whether the prejudice, the influence, or the other reasons are such that they will affect the answers of jurors on the voir dire examination or the testimony of witnesses at the trial.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 31 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 31
Failure to give peace bond; effect
Status: in_force

If the defendant fails to give the peace bond required under Articles 29 and 30, he shall be committed to jail. The defendant may be discharged by the committing or some other magistrate upon giving bond as ordered. The committing magistrate may revoke or modify his order for a peace bond.

A defendant who has been committed for failure to give a peace bond ordered by a justice of the peace may not be held longer than five days.
La. Civ. Code art. 1288 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1288
Payment of collation by donee where succession effects insufficient.
Status: in_force

In case there be no property or effects in the succession to satisfy the collations due for movables or money given, the donee shall have, for the payment of the sum due to his coheirs, the same terms of payment as are given for the payment of the amount of collations of immovable property, and under the same conditions as are before prescribed.
La. Civ. Code art. 1601 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1601
Preference of payment among particular legacies
Status: in_force

If the property remaining after payment of the debts and satisfaction of the legitime proves insufficient to discharge all particular legacies, the legacies of specific things must be discharged first and then the legacies of groups and collections of things. Any remaining property must be applied toward the discharge of legacies of money, to be divided among the legatees of money in proportion to the amounts of their legacies. When a legacy of money is expressly declared to be in recompense for services, it shall be paid in preference to all other legacies of money.

Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 4850.1 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 4850.1
City Court of Alexandria; in rem and quasi in rem jurisdiction
Status: in_force

The City Court of Alexandria may exercise jurisdiction quasi in rem over movable or immovable property, or jurisdiction in rem over movable property, in the manner provided by law, if the property is situated within the territorial jurisdiction of the court and the value of the property and the amount in dispute does not exceed ten thousand dollars. The City Court of Alexandria may issue a writ of seizure and sale in an executory proceeding to enforce a privilege or mortgage on movable or immovable property if the value of the property and the amount in dispute does not exceed ten thousand dollars.

Acts 2003, No. 905, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 3226 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3226
Right of preference against creditors.
Status: in_force

Finally, he who has incurred these expenses has a privilege against these same creditors, by virtue of which he has preference over them out of the price of the thing sold, for the amount of such necessary charges as he shall have incurred for its preservation. This is the privilege in question in the present paragraph.
La. Civ. Code art. 615 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 615
Change of the form of property
Status: in_force

When property subject to usufruct changes form without an act of the usufructuary, the usufruct does not terminate even though the property may no longer serve the use for which it was originally destined.

When property subject to usufruct is converted into money or other property without an act of the usufructuary, as in a case of expropriation of an immovable or liquidation of a corporation, the usufruct terminates as to the property converted and attaches to the money or other property received by the usufructuary.

Acts 1976, No. 103, §1; Acts 2010, No. 881, §1, eff. July 2, 2010.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 3573 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 3573
Sequestration by court on its own motion
Status: in_force

The court on its own motion may order the sequestration of property the ownership of which is in dispute without requiring security when one of the parties does not appear to have a better right to possession than the other.
La. Civ. Code art. 360 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 360
Parents' rights of administration
Status: in_force

In addition to the rights of tutorship, the parents shall retain, during the marriage and during the minority of the child under full or limited continuing tutorship, all rights of administration granted to parents of children not under continuing tutorship during their minority.

Acts 1966, No. 496, §2; Acts 2014, No. 811, §30, eff. June 23, 2014; Acts 2024, No. 123, §1.
La. Ch. Code art. 896.1 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 896.1
Alternative disposition
Status: in_force

In addition to any other disposition which may be ordered as a result of adjudication, the court may recommend that the child, if eligible, participate in the pilot program established pursuant to the provisions of Part VI of Chapter 7 of Title 15, R.S. 15:971 et seq.

Acts 2009, No. 170, §1, effective if and when sufficient funds are appropriated.
La. Civ. Code art. 2374 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2374
Judgment of separation of property
Status: in_force

A. When the interest of a spouse in a community property regime is threatened to be diminished by the fraud, fault, neglect, or incompetence of the other spouse, or by the disorder of the affairs of the other spouse, he may obtain a judgment decreeing separation of property.

B. When a spouse is an absent person, the other spouse is entitled to a judgment decreeing separation of property.

C. When a petition for divorce has been filed, upon motion of either spouse, a judgment decreeing separation of property may be obtained upon proof that the spouses have lived separate and apart without reconciliation for at least thirty days from the date of, or prior to, the filing of the petition for divorce.

D. When the spouses have lived separate and apart continuously for a period of six months, a judgment decreeing separation of property shall be granted on the petition of either spouse.

Acts 1992, No. 295, §1; Acts 1993, No. 25, §1; Acts 1993, No. 627, §1; Acts 2010, No. 603, §1, eff. June 25, 2010.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 930 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 930
Evidentiary hearing
Status: in_force

A. An evidentiary hearing for the taking of testimony or other evidence shall be ordered within the time period provided in Article 930.11 whenever there are questions of fact which cannot properly be resolved pursuant to Articles 928 and 929. The petitioner, in absence of an express waiver, is entitled to be present at such hearing, unless the only evidence to be received is evidence as permitted pursuant to Paragraph B of this Article, and the petitioner has been or will be provided with copies of such evidence and an opportunity to respond thereto in writing.

B. Duly authenticated records, transcripts, depositions, documents, or portions thereof, or admissions of facts may be received in evidence.

C. No evidentiary hearing on the merits of a claim shall be ordered or conducted, nor shall any proffer of evidence be received over the objection of the respondent, and no ruling upon procedural objections to the petition shall purport to address the merits of the claim over the objection of the respondent, unless the court has first ruled upon all procedural objections raised by the respondent within the time period provided in Article 930.11, and such rulings have become final. Any language in a ruling on procedural objections raised by the respondent which purports to address the merits of the claim shall be deemed as null, void, and of no effect.

Acts 1990, No. 523, §1; Acts 2025, No. 393, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 1245 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1245
Manual gifts.
Status: in_force

The same rule is established with respect to things given by a father, mother or other ascendant, by their own hands, to one of their children * for his pleasure or other use.

* English translation of French text incomplete; should include "or descendants."
La. Civ. Code art. 231 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 231
Parents' obligation to deliver and account
Status: in_force

Parents are bound to deliver to the child his property at termination of parental authority.

Parents shall also give an account of their administration when ordered by the court. The action to compel an accounting is subject to a liberative prescription of five years that commences to run from the day the child attains the age of majority.

Acts 2015, No. 260, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.
La. Civ. Code art. 521 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 521
Lost or stolen thing.
Status: in_force

One who has possession of a lost or stolen thing may not transfer its ownership to another. For purposes of this Chapter, a thing is stolen when one has taken possession of it without the consent of its owner. A thing is not stolen when the owner delivers it or transfers its ownership to another as a result of fraud.

Acts 1979, No. 180, §1.
La. Ch. Code art. 1179 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1179
Appeal
Status: in_force

A. Appeal from an order disapproving the adoptive placement shall be by trial de novo in the court of appeal, based upon the criteria set out in Article 1177.

B. The appeal shall be heard in chambers, confidentially, in a summary manner, and within forty-eight hours of its filing.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §12, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 5154 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 5154
Third possessor's right to plead
Status: in_force

When a legal or judicial mortgage securing an indebtedness due by a former owner of property is sought to be enforced against the property after its acquisition by a third possessor, the latter may plead discussion to compel the mortgagee to enforce the mortgage against other property affected thereby, which is owned by the mortgagor, or which has been acquired from the mortgagor by a third person after the third possessor acquired his property.
La. Ch. Code art. 201-300 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 201-300
Children's Code 201-300
Status: in_force

TITLE II

LEGAL STATUS OF CHILDREN

Arts. 201 - 300. (Reserved)

Acts 1991, No. 235, §2.
La. Civ. Code art. 1 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1
Sources of law
Status: in_force

The sources of law are legislation and custom.

Acts 1987, No. 124, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1988.
La. Civ. Code art. 45 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 45
Proof of intent to change domicile
Status: in_force

Proof of one's intent to establish or change domicile depends on the circumstances. A sworn declaration of intent recorded in the parishes from which and to which he intends to move may be considered as evidence of intent.

Acts 2008, No. 801, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 873 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 873
Delay between conviction and sentence
Status: in_force

If a defendant is convicted of a felony, at least three days shall elapse between conviction and sentence. If a motion for a new trial, or in arrest of judgment, is filed, sentence shall not be imposed until at least twenty-four hours after the motion is overruled. If the defendant expressly waives a delay provided for in this article or pleads guilty, sentence may be imposed immediately.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 1765 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 1765
Challenges for cause
Status: in_force

A juror may be challenged for cause based upon any of the following:

(1) When the juror lacks a qualification required by law;

(2) When the juror has formed an opinion in the case or is not otherwise impartial, the cause of his bias being immaterial;

(3) When the relations whether by blood, marriage, employment, friendship, or enmity between the juror and any party or his attorney are such that it must be reasonably believed that they would influence the juror in coming to a verdict;

(4) When the juror served on a previous jury, which tried the same case or one arising out of the same facts;

(5) When the juror refuses to answer a question on the voir dire examination on the ground that his answer might tend to incriminate him.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 84 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 84
Action involving certain retirement systems and employee benefit programs
Status: in_force

Actions involving the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System, Office of Group Benefits, State Police Pension and Relief Fund, Louisiana School Employees' Retirement System, Louisiana School Lunch Employees' Retirement System, Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana, Assessors' Retirement Fund, Clerks of Court Retirement and Relief Fund, District Attorneys' Retirement System, Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana, Parochial Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana, Registrar of Voters Employees' Retirement System, Sheriffs' Pension and Relief Fund, Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System, or the Firefighters' Retirement System shall be brought in the parish of East Baton Rouge or in the parish of the domicile of the retirement system or employee benefit program.

Added by Acts 1980, No.164, §1. Amended by Acts 1982, No.103, §1; Acts 2001, No. 1178, §8, eff. June 29, 2001.
La. Civ. Code art. 667 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 667
Limitations on use of property
Status: in_force

Although a proprietor may do with his estate whatever he pleases, still he cannot make any work on it, which may deprive his neighbor of the liberty of enjoying his own, or which may be the cause of any damage to him. However, if the work he makes on his estate deprives his neighbor of enjoyment or causes damage to him, he is answerable for damages only upon a showing that he knew or, in the exercise of reasonable care, should have known that his works would cause damage, that the damage could have been prevented by the exercise of reasonable care, and that he failed to exercise such reasonable care. Nothing in this Article shall preclude the court from the application of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur in an appropriate case. Nonetheless, the proprietor is answerable for damages without regard to his knowledge or his exercise of reasonable care, if the damage is caused by an ultrahazardous activity. An ultrahazardous activity as used in this Article is strictly limited to pile driving or blasting with explosives.

Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 1, §1, eff. April 16, 1996.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 4626.1 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 4626.1
Judgment ordering reimbursement or payment of amounts due co-owner and payment and allocation of costs of private sale out of proceeds of sale
Status: in_force

A judgment ordering the private sale of property to effect a partition under the provisions of this Chapter shall order, out of the proceeds of such sale, all of the following:

(1) The reimbursement to a co-owner of the amount proven to be due the co-owner for the payment of taxes on the property and the expenses of preservation of the property.

(2) The payment to a co-owner of the amount proven to be due the co-owner by another co-owner who has received and retained the fruits and revenues of the property.

(3)(a) The payment of reasonable costs related to the sale, including real estate commissions, brokerage fees, appraisal costs, payments associated with the release of encumbrances and other customary closing costs, and the allocation of such costs to one or more co-owners.

(b) The court in rendering judgment shall consider whether the costs associated with the sale will be paid to any person related to the co-owners within the fourth degree or a juridical entity in which the co-owner has a direct or indirect financial interest.

Acts 2020, No. 281, §2, eff. June 11, 2020.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 933 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 933
Offenses
Status: in_force

Except where the context clearly indicates otherwise, as used in this Code:

(1) "Offense" includes both a felony and a misdemeanor.

(2) "Capital offense" means an offense that may be punished by death.

(3) "Felony" means an offense that may be punished by death or by imprisonment at hard labor.

(4) "Misdemeanor" means any offense other than a felony, and includes the violation of an ordinance providing a penal sanction.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 13 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 13
Computation of time
Status: in_force

In computing a period of time allowed or prescribed by law or by order of court, the date of the act, event, or default after which the period begins to run is not to be included. The last day of the period is to be included, unless it is a legal holiday, in which event the period runs until the end of the next day which is not a legal holiday.

A half-holiday is considered as a legal holiday.

A legal holiday is to be included in the computation of a period of time allowed or prescribed, except when:

(1) It is expressly excluded;

(2) It would otherwise be the last day of the period; or

(3) The period is less than seven days.
La. Civ. Code art. 2763 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2763
Changes or extensions of original plans, effect.
Status: in_force

When an architect or other workman has undertaken the building of a house by the job, according to a plot agreed on between him and the owner of the ground, he can not claim an increase of the price agreed on, on the plea of the original plot having been changed and extended, unless he can prove that such changes*have been made in compliance with the wishes of the owner.

*English translation of French text incomplete; should include "or extensions."
La. Ch. Code art. 1301.5 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1301.5
Application of Chapter to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding
Status: in_force

A. A tribunal of this state shall apply Sections 1 through 6 and, as applicable, Section 7, to a support proceeding involving:

(1) A foreign support order;

(2) A foreign tribunal; or

(3) An obligee, obligor, or child residing in a foreign country.

B. A tribunal of this state that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of Sections 1 through 6.

C. Section 7 applies only to a support proceeding under the Convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of Section 7 is inconsistent with Sections 1 through 6, Section 7 controls.

Acts 1995, No. 251, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996; Acts 1997, No. 1241, §1, eff. July 15, 1997; Acts 2015, No. 80, §1, eff. July 1, 2015.