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La. Ch. Code art. 1305.2 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1305.2
Employer's compliance with income-withholding of another state
Status: in_force

A. Upon receipt of an income-withholding order, the obligor's employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor.

B. The employer shall treat an income-withholding order issued in another state which appears regular on its face as if it had been issued by a tribunal of this state.

C. Except as otherwise provided in Paragraph D of this Article and Article 1305.3, the employer shall withhold and distribute the funds as directed in the withholding order by complying with the terms of the order, which specify:

(1) The duration and amount of periodic payments of current child support, stated as a sum certain;

(2) The person designated to receive payments and the address to which the payments are to be forwarded;

(3) Medical support, whether in the form of periodic cash payment, stated as a sum certain, or ordering the obligor to provide health insurance coverage for the child under a policy available through the obligor's employment;

(4) The amount of periodic payments of fees and costs for a support enforcement agency, the issuing tribunal, and the obligee's attorney, stated as sums certain; and

(5) The amount of periodic payments of arrearages and interest on arrearages, stated as sums certain.

D. An employer shall comply with the law of the state of the obligor's principal place of employment for withholding from income with respect to:

(1) The employer's fee for processing an income-withholding order;

(2) The maximum amount permitted to be withheld from the obligor's income; and

(3) The times within which the employer must implement the withholding order and forward the child support payment.

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.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 901 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 901
Revocation for commission of another offense
Status: in_force

A. In addition to the grounds for revocation of probation enumerated in Article 900, a defendant who is on probation for a felony who subsequently commits and is convicted of a felony under the laws of this state, another state, the United States, or the District of Columbia, and which if committed in this state would be a felony, shall have his probation revoked as of the date of the commission of the felony or final conviction of the felony.

B. When a defendant who is under a suspended sentence or on probation for a misdemeanor commits or is convicted of any offense under the laws of this state, a political subdivision thereof, another state or a political subdivision thereof, the United States, or the District of Columbia, his suspended sentence or probation may be revoked as of the date of the commission or final conviction of the offense.

C. In cases of revocation provided for in this Article:

(1) No credit shall be allowed for time spent on probation or for the time elapsed during suspension of the sentence.

(2) When the new conviction is a Louisiana conviction, the court shall specify in the minutes whether the sentence shall run consecutively or concurrently with the sentence for the new conviction.

(3) The defendant may be given credit for time served prior to the revocation hearing for time served in actual custody while being held for a probation violation in a local detention facility, state institution, or out-of-state institution pursuant to Article 880.

D. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to a defendant who, as an additional condition for the violation of his probation, has been ordered to complete a drug or specialty court program. A defendant who is eligible for revocation of probation pursuant to Paragraph A of this Article and does not successfully complete such court-ordered drug or specialty court program shall have his probation revoked as of the date of the commission of the felony or final conviction of the felony.

Amended by Acts 1975, No. 331, §1; Acts 1977, No. 397, §2; Acts 1981, No. 439, §1; Acts 2016, No. 214, §1; Acts 2025, No. 72, §1.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 2132 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 2132
Same; correction
Status: in_force

A record on appeal which is incorrect or contains misstatements, irregularities or informalities, or which omits a material part of the trial record, may be corrected even after the record is transmitted to the appellate court, by the parties by stipulation, by the trial court or by the order of the appellate court. All other questions as to the content and form of the record shall be presented to the appellate court.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 4203 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 4203
Compelling tutor to account
Status: in_force

The undertutor shall apply to the court for an order compelling the tutor to file an account whenever the tutor has failed to file his annual account or at any other time when the circumstances indicate that an account should be filed.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 2373 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 2373
Distribution of proceeds of sale
Status: in_force

After deducting the costs, the sheriff shall first pay the amount due the seizing creditor, then the inferior security interests, mortgages, liens, and privileges on the property sold, and shall pay to the debtor whatever surplus may remain.

Acts 1989, No. 137, §18, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 282 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 282
Acts which may be done by district court clerk
Status: in_force

The clerk of a district court may:

(1) Grant an appeal and fix the return day thereof; fix the amount of the bond for an appeal, or for the issuance of a writ of attachment or of sequestration, or for the release of property seized under any writ, unless fixed by law; appoint an attorney at law to represent a nonresident, absent, incompetent, or unrepresented defendant; or dismiss without prejudice, on application of plaintiff, an action or proceeding in which no exception, answer, or intervention has been filed; and

(2) Probate a testament, when there is no opposition thereto; homologate an inventory; confirm or appoint a tutor, undertutor, undertutor ad hoc, curator, undercurator, undercurator ad hoc, administrator, executor, or dative testamentary executor, when there is no opposition thereto; appoint an attorney for absent heirs; and approve and accept the bond required of a legal representative for the faithful performance of his duties.
La. Civ. Code art. 624 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 624
Security to prevent termination
Status: in_force

In the cases covered by the preceding Article, the court may decree termination of the usufruct or decree that the property be delivered to the naked owner on the condition that he shall pay to the usufructuary a reasonable annuity until the end of the usufruct. The amount of the annuity shall be based on the value of the usufruct.

The usufructuary may prevent termination of the usufruct or delivery of the property to the naked owner by giving security to insure that he will take appropriate corrective measures within a period fixed by the court.

Acts 1976, No. 103, §1; Acts 2010, No. 881, §1, eff. July 2, 2010.
La. Civ. Code art. 2766 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2766
Termination of contract by death of workman.
Status: in_force

Contracts for hiring out work are canceled by the death of the workman, architect or undertaker, unless the proprietor should consent that the work should be continued by the heir or heirs of the architect, or by workmen employed for that purpose by the heirs.
La. Civ. Code art. 1920 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1920
Right to require confirmation or rescission of the contract
Status: in_force

Immediately after discovering the incapacity, a party, who at the time of contracting was ignorant of the incapacity of the other party, may require from that party, if the incapacity has ceased, or from the legal representative if it has not, that the contract be confirmed or rescinded.

Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 334.3 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 334.3
Repealed by Acts 2016, No. 613, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2017.
Status: repealed

Acts 2008, No. 659, §1; Acts 2010, No. 892, §1; Acts 2010, No. 914, §1; Acts 2016, No. 613, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2017.
La. Civ. Code art. 1869 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1869
Offer to perform and deposit by obligor
Status: in_force

When the object of the performance is the delivery of a thing or a sum of money and the obligee, without justification, fails to accept the performance tendered by the obligor, the tender, followed by deposit to the order of the court, produces all the effects of a performance from the time the tender was made if declared valid by the court.

A valid tender is an offer to perform according to the nature of the obligation.

Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985.
La. Civ. Code art. 230 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 230
Alienation, encumbrance, or lease of the property of the child; expenditure of fruits
Status: in_force

Either parent may alienate, encumber, or lease the property of the child, compromise a claim of the child, or incur an obligation of the child for his education, support, and maintenance only with prior court approval, except as otherwise provided by law.

Nevertheless, a parent may expend, without court approval, the fruits of the child's property for the shared benefit of the family, excluding major children not living in the household, or for the expenses of the child's household or property.

Acts 1985, No. 173, §1; Acts 1992, No. 1014, §1; Acts 2001, No. 408, §1; Acts 2015, No. 260, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.
La. Civ. Code art. 3476 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3476
Attributes of possession
Status: in_force

The possessor must have corporeal possession, or civil possession preceded by corporeal possession, to acquire a thing by prescription.

The possession must be continuous, uninterrupted, peaceable, public, and unequivocal.

Acts 1982, No. 187, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1983.
La. Civ. Code art. 2366 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2366
Use of community property or former community property for the benefit of separate property
Status: in_force

If community property has been used during the existence of the community property regime or former community property has been used thereafter for the acquisition, use, improvement, or benefit of the separate property of a spouse, the other spouse is entitled to reimbursement for one-half of the amount or value that the community property had at the time it was used.

Buildings, other constructions permanently attached to the ground, and plantings made on the separate property of a spouse with community property belong to the owner of the ground. The other spouse is entitled to reimbursement for one-half of the amount or value that the community property had at the time it was used.

Acts 1979, No. 709, §1; Acts 1984, No. 933, §1; Acts 2009, No. 204, §1.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 3241 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 3241
Presenting claim against succession
Status: in_force

A creditor of a succession under administration may submit his claim to the succession representative for acknowledgment and payment in due course of administration.

Except for the purposes of Article 3245, no particular form is required for the submission of a claim by a creditor of the succession other than that it be in writing.
La. Ch. Code art. 641 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 641
Service and return; nonresident parent
Status: in_force

A. If a parent does not reside within this state, service of the petition and notice, and summons if issued by the court, shall be made not less than five days prior to commencement of the adjudication hearing on the matter by any of the following means:

(1) Certified mail, return receipt requested, to the address indicated in the petition.

(2) Electronic mail to the electronic mail address expressly designated by the parent in a pleading, at the continued custody or continued safety plan hearing, or at any other hearing at which the parent personally appeared before the court.

B. If service was made by certified mail, the person effecting the service shall file the return receipt as proof of service.

C. Service by electronic mail is complete upon transmission but is not effective if the serving party learns the transmission did not reach the party to be served.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §6, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2015, No. 124, §1, eff. June 19, 2015.
La. Civ. Code art. 627 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 627
Right of retention.
Status: in_force

Upon termination of the usufruct, the usufructuary or his heirs have the right to retain possession of the property until reimbursed for all expenses and advances for which they have recourse against the owner or his heirs.

Acts 1976, No. 103, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 1514 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1514
Usufruct of surviving spouse affecting legitime; security
Status: in_force

A forced heir may request security when a usufruct in favor of a surviving spouse affects his legitime and he is not a child of the surviving spouse. A forced heir may also request security to the extent that a surviving spouse's usufruct over the legitime affects separate property. The court may order the execution of notes, mortgages, or other documents as it deems necessary, or may impose a mortgage or lien on either community or separate property, movable or immovable, as security.

Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 77, §1; Acts 2003, No. 1207, §2.

NOTE: See Acts 2003, No. 1207, §3.
La. Ch. Code art. 1282.4 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1282.4
Effect of final decree
Status: in_force

The final decree of adoption shall have the same force and effect as any final decree of adoption rendered by a court of this state.

Acts 1999, No. 1268, §1.
La. Ch. Code art. 833 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 833
Mental examinations
Status: in_force

A. The court shall order a mental examination of the child when it has reasonable grounds to doubt the mental capacity of the child to proceed. Findings of fact and the reasons for judgment shall be attached to the order. Prior to ordering a mental examination, the court shall appoint counsel to represent the child if the child is not yet represented.

B. The court order for a mental examination shall not deprive the child or the district attorney of the right to an independent mental examination by a physician of his choice. Such physician shall be permitted to have reasonable access to the child for the purposes of the examination.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §8, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2006, No. 266, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 2315.13 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2315.13
Liability for damages caused by child sexual abuse in a school setting
Status: in_force

Any parent or guardian of a child who is the victim of sexual abuse in a school setting as defined in Children's Code Article 610 may be awarded damages including but not limited to medical expenses incurred as a result of the sexual abuse, behavioral health expenses incurred as a result of the sexual abuse, reimbursement of any tuition paid for attendance at the school if the child is removed from the school, and any other damages allowed by law.

Acts 2025, No. 409, §8.
La. Civ. Code art. 3537 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3537
General rule
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in this Title, an issue of conventional obligations is governed by the law of the state whose policies would be most seriously impaired if its law were not applied to that issue.

That state is determined by evaluating the strength and pertinence of the relevant policies of the involved states in the light of: (1) the pertinent contacts of each state to the parties and the transaction, including the place of negotiation, formation, and performance of the contract, the location of the object of the contract, and the place of domicile, habitual residence, or business of the parties; (2) the nature, type, and purpose of the contract; and (3) the policies referred to in Article 3515, as well as the policies of facilitating the orderly planning of transactions, of promoting multistate commercial intercourse, and of protecting one party from undue imposition by the other.

Acts 1991, No. 923, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 3866 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 3866
Judgment
Status: in_force

After the hearing, the court may render judgment making the writ peremptory.
La. Civ. Code art. 49 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 49
Legal capacity of absent person
Status: in_force

The establishment of the curatorship does not deprive the absent person of his capacity to make juridical acts. Nevertheless, his acts of disposition of immovable property are not effective towards third persons and the curator unless filed for registry in the public records of the parish in which the immovable property is located.

Acts 1990, No. 989, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 4301 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 4301
Purpose of sale or exchange
Status: in_force

A tutor may sell or exchange any interest of a minor in property, owned either in its entirety or in indivision, for any purpose, when authorized by the court as provided in Article 4271.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 832 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 832
Continued presence not required
Status: in_force

A. A defendant initially present for the commencement of trial shall not prevent the further progress of the trial, including the return of the verdict, and shall be considered to have waived his right to be present if his counsel is present or if the right to counsel has been waived and either of the following occur:

(1) He voluntarily absents himself after the trial has commenced, whether or not he has been informed by the court of his obligation to be present during the trial.

(2) After being warned by the court that disruptive conduct will cause him to be removed from the courtroom, he persists in conduct which justifies his exclusion from the courtroom.

B. Repealed by Acts 2020, No. 160, §2.

Acts 1990, No. 543, §1; Acts 1990, No. 593, §1; Acts 1997, No. 718, §1; Acts 2017, No. 406, §1; Acts 2020, No. 160, §2.
La. Civ. Code art. 817 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 817
Imprescriptibility of action
Status: in_force

The action for partition is imprescriptible.

Acts 1990, No. 990, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.
La. Civ. Code art. 2521 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2521
Defects that are made known to the buyer or that are apparent
Status: in_force

The seller owes no warranty for defects in the thing that were known to the buyer at the time of the sale, or for defects that should have been discovered by a reasonably prudent buyer of such things.

Acts 1993, No. 841, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.
La. Ch. Code art. 715 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 715
Service of motion to modify
Status: in_force

A. A copy of a motion to modify shall be served upon the child, his parent, the petitioner, and any person, institution, or agency to whom the custody of the child has been assigned.

B. Service shall be in the manner provided for service of the petition.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §6, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 336 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 336
Proof necessary at bond forfeiture hearing
Status: in_force

A. The court at a contradictory hearing shall forfeit the bail undertaking and sign a judgment of bond forfeiture upon proof of all of the following:

(1) The bail undertaking.

(2) The power of attorney, if any.

(3) Notice to the defendant and the surety as required by Article 334.

(4) Proof that more than one hundred eighty days have elapsed since the notice of warrant for arrest was sent.

B. The judgment of bond forfeiture shall be issued against the defendant and his sureties in solido for the full amount of the bail. A bail agent who represents the surety as an insurance agent shall not be solidarily liable for the judgment of bond forfeiture against the defendant and his sureties. In the event that a bail agent who represents the surety as an insurance agent is held solidarily liable, then that bail agent may request to be released from the judgment. However, the release of the bail agent shall have no effect on the judgment decreeing the forfeiture of the bail undertaking against the defendant and his sureties.

C. The judgment shall include the address and the last four digits of the social security number for the defendant and the personal sureties. A judgment of bond forfeiture shall not be set aside because of the invalidity of the information required by the provisions of this Article or for the failure to include the information required by this Article.

Amended by Acts 1970, No. 442, §1; Acts 1974, No. 693, §1; Acts 1976, No. 537, §1; Acts 1993, No. 834, §1, eff. June 22, 1993; Acts 1997, No. 1189, §1; Acts 2004, No. 567, §1; Acts 2011, 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 16, §1; Acts 2016, No. 613, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2017.
La. Civ. Code art. 871 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 871
Meaning of succession
Status: in_force

Succession is the transmission of the estate of the deceased to his successors. The successors thus have the right to take possession of the estate of the deceased after complying with applicable provisions of law.

Acts 1981 No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
La. Civ. Code art. 3471 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3471
Limits of contractual freedom
Status: in_force

A juridical act purporting to exclude prescription, to specify a longer period than that established by law, or to make the requirements of prescription more onerous, is null.

Acts 1982, No. 187, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1983.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 595 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 595
Award of expenses of litigation; security for costs
Status: in_force

A. The court may allow the representative parties their reasonable expenses of litigation, including attorney's fees, when as a result of the class action a fund is made available, or a recovery or compromise is had which is beneficial, to the class.

B. The court, on contradictory motion at any stage of the proceeding in the trial court prior to judgment, may require the plaintiff in a class action to furnish security for the court costs which a defendant may be compelled to pay. This security for costs may be increased or decreased by the court, on contradictory motion of any interested party, on a showing that the security furnished has become inadequate or excessive.
La. Ch. Code art. 1305.5 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1305.5
Penalties for noncompliance
Status: in_force

An employer that willfully fails to comply with an income-withholding order issued in another state and received for enforcement is subject to the same penalties that may be imposed for noncompliance with an order issued by a tribunal of this state.

Acts 1997, No. 1241, §1, eff. July 15, 1997; Acts 2015, No. 80, §1, eff. July 1, 2015.
La. Ch. Code art. 747 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 747
Time for filing of petition; child in custody
Status: in_force

A. If a child is continued in custody prior to adjudication, a petition requesting that the family be adjudicated in need of services shall be filed within thirty days of the hearing to determine continued custody.

B. Upon motion and good cause shown, the time for filing a petition may be extended by the court.

C. If no petition is filed within the applicable time period, the child shall be returned to the parent.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §7.