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La. Civ. Code art. 56 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 56
New evidence as to time of death
Status: in_force

If there is clear and convincing new evidence establishing a date of death other than that determined in the judgment of declaration of death, the judgment shall be amended accordingly.

Persons previously recognized as successors are bound to restore the estate to the new successors but may keep the fruits they have gathered.

Acts 1990, No. 989, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 3228 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 3228
Loans to succession representative for specific purposes; authority to encumber succession property as security therefor
Status: in_force

When it appears to the best interest of the succession, and after compliance with Article 3229, the court may authorize a succession representative to borrow money for the purposes of preserving the property or the orderly administration of the estate, of paying estate debts, and for expenditures in the regular course of business conducted in accordance with Article 3224. As security for the loans the court may authorize the succession representative to encumber succession property upon the terms and conditions as it may direct.

Acts 1995, No. 203, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1421, §3, eff. July 1, 1999; Acts 2010, No. 175, §1.
La. Ch. Code art. 1408 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1408
Facilities prohibited; emergency certificate for substance abuse treatment
Status: in_force

A. Minor patients involuntarily hospitalized by emergency certificate for substance abuse treatment shall not be admitted to the following facilities:

(1) Private clinics.

(2) Public or private halfway houses.

(3) Public or private group homes.

(4) Forensic facilities.

(5) Residential facilities for children.

B. Judicial commitment or hospitalization by emergency certificate may be made to any facility listed in Article 1406(B), except forensic facilities, provided that such facility has a substance abuse inpatient operation maintained separate and apart from any mental health inpatient operation in such facility.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §14, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 858 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 858
Same; official document or act
Status: in_force

In pleading an official document or official act, it is sufficient to allege that the document was issued or the act done in compliance with law.
La. Civ. Code art. 2022 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2022
Refusal to perform
Status: in_force

Either party to a commutative contract may refuse to perform his obligation if the other has failed to perform or does not offer to perform his own at the same time, if the performances are due simultaneously.

Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 655 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 655
Application for discharge or release on probation; review panel
Status: in_force

A.(1) When the superintendent of a mental institution is of the opinion that a person committed pursuant to Article 654 can be discharged or can be released on probation, without danger to others or to himself, he shall recommend the discharge or release of the person in a report to a review panel comprised of the person's treating physician, the clinical director of the facility to which the person is committed, and a physician, medical psychologist, or psychologist who served on the sanity commission which recommended commitment of the person. If any member of the panel is unable to serve, a physician, medical psychologist, or a psychologist engaged in the practice of clinical or counseling psychology with at least three years' experience in the field of mental health shall be appointed by the remaining members.

(2) The panel shall review all reports received promptly. After review, the panel shall make a recommendation to the court by which the person was committed as to the person's mental condition and whether he can be discharged, conditionally or unconditionally, or placed on probation, without being a danger to others or himself. If the review panel recommends to the court that the person be discharged, conditionally or unconditionally, or placed on probation, the court shall conduct a contradictory hearing following notice to the district attorney.

(3) A recommendation that the person be discharged or released on probation shall require a unanimous vote of the panel.

(4) The panel shall render specific findings of fact in support of its recommendation.

B. A person committed pursuant to Article 654 may make application to the review panel for discharge or for release on probation. Such application by a committed person may not be filed until the committed person has been confined for a period of at least six months after the original commitment. If the review panel recommends to the court that the person be discharged, conditionally or unconditionally, or placed on probation, the court shall conduct a hearing following notice to the district attorney. If the recommendation of the review panel or the court is adverse, the applicant shall not be permitted to file another application until one year has elapsed from the date of determination.

C. The superintendent of the mental institution shall, under both Paragraphs A and B of this Article, transmit a copy of this report and recommendation to the person committed or his attorney and to the district attorney of the parish from which the person was committed.

Acts 1985, No. 925, §1; Acts 1987, No. 928, §1, eff. July 20, 1987; Acts 2018, No. 532, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 3032 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3032
Obligation to account
Status: in_force

Upon termination of the mandate, unless this obligation has been expressly dispensed with, the mandatary is bound to account for his performance to the principal.

Acts 1997, No. 261, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.
La. Ch. Code art. 858 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 858
Motion for transfer; notice
Status: in_force

A. On motion of the district attorney, the child, or on its own motion, the court may conduct a transfer hearing. Such motion may be filed at any time following the filing of a delinquency petition but shall be heard prior to the adjudication hearing or acceptance of an admission to the delinquency petition.

B. Notice in writing of the time, place, and purpose of the hearing shall be given to the child and his parents and other custodian, if any, at least ten days before the hearing. In addition, if the petition charges the child with second degree kidnapping, aggravated or first degree rape, or forcible or second degree rape, the court shall inform the child regarding the applicable registration and duration requirements in Chapter 3-B of Title 15 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §8, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 1993, No. 634, §1, eff. June 15, 1993; Acts 2010, No. 594, §1; Acts 2015, No. 184, §8.
La. Ch. Code art. 440 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 440
Stay of proceeding; extension
Status: in_force

Upon issuing a referral for mediation, the court may stay the proceeding and order a review of the mediation within sixty days of the referral. The court may extend such period for an additional thirty days.

Acts 1999, No. 894, §1.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 714 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 714
Continuance to defendants jointly indicted
Status: in_force

When defendants are jointly indicted and a continuance is granted to one of them, the court may grant a continuance to any of the others, on his motion. However, a continuance granted to one defendant shall not deprive other jointly indicted defendants of a prompt trial unless the state can show good ground for continuance as to them.

Amended by Acts 1968, No. 143, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 3365 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3365
Effect of notice recorded after cessation of effect of recordation
Status: in_force

A notice of reinscription that is recorded after the effect of recordation of the instrument sought to be reinscribed has ceased, again produces the effects of recordation, but only from the time that the notice of reinscription is recorded. The effect of recordation pursuant to this Article shall continue for ten years from the date on which the notice of reinscription is recorded, and the instrument may be reinscribed thereafter from time to time as provided by Article 3362.

Reinscription pursuant to this Article does not require that the mortgage or pledge or evidence of privilege be again recorded, even if the original recordation has been cancelled.

Acts 2005, No. 169, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006; Acts 2005, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 13, §1, eff. Nov. 29, 2005; Acts 2014, No. 281, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.

NOTE: Acts 2005, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 13, §1, changed the effective date of Acts 2005, No. 169, to July 1, 2006.
La. Civ. Code art. 301 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 301
Parent's unconditional obligation of tutorship.
Status: in_force

The causes herein expressed, or any other, cannot excuse a parent from the obligation of accepting the tutorship of his children.

Amended by Acts 1974, No. 163, §3.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 4304 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 4304
Additional bond prior to sale of immovables
Status: in_force

Before authorizing a sale of a minor's immovable property, the court may require the tutor to furnish additional security in an amount fixed by the court.
La. Civ. Code art. 2294 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2294
Duties of the manager; notice to the owner
Status: in_force

The manager is bound, when the circumstances so warrant, to give notice to the owner that he has undertaken the management and to wait for the directions of the owner, unless there is immediate danger.

Acts 1995, No. 1041, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.
La. Ch. Code art. 1512 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1512
Continuing jurisdiction
Status: in_force

The court exercising juvenile jurisdiction shall have continuing jurisdiction and the exclusive authority to modify its orders rendered pursuant to this Chapter.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §15, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
La. Civ. Code art. 1945 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1945
Revocation of an offer of reward made to the public
Status: in_force

An offer of reward made to the public may be revoked before completion of the requested act, provided the revocation is made by the same or an equally effective means as the offer.

Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985.
La. Ch. Code art. 1107 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1107
Confidentiality of records
Status: in_force

A. All records maintained in accordance with this Title shall be confidential and shall not be open to inspection except on written authorization by the court and there shall be no publication.

B. Such written authorization shall be granted only upon a showing of compelling reasons and then only to the extent necessary to satisfy the compelling necessity pursuant to the procedures contained in Articles 1188 through 1192.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §11, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
La. Civ. Code art. 1302 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1302
Testamentary partition
Status: in_force

There is no occasion for partition, if the deceased has regulated it between his lawful heirs, or strangers, or if the deceased has expressly delegated the authority to his executor to allocate specific assets to satisfy a legacy expressed in terms of a quantum or value; and in such case the judge must follow the will of the testator or his executor.

The same thing takes place when the testator has expressly assigned specific assets of his estate, or delegated the authority to assign specific assets of his estate, in satisfaction of the forced portion of his children.

Amended by Acts 1982, No. 448, §1.
La. Ch. Code art. 1167 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1167
Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of this Title is to promote the permanent placement of available children into suitable homes through the procedures described herein.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §12, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
La. Ch. Code art. 328 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 328
Confidentiality
Status: in_force

Videotapes which are a part of the court record shall be preserved under a protective order of the court in order to protect the privacy of the protected person. The court shall order the destruction of the videotapes after five years have elapsed from the date of entry of judgment. However, if an appeal is filed, the videotapes shall not be destroyed until a final judgment on appeal has been rendered.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2004, No. 241, §2.
La. Ch. Code art. 1144 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1144
Placement report
Status: in_force

A. After filing of a surrender in accordance with the provisions of Article 1131, when the department is the legal custodian of the child, the department shall report to the court in detail concerning the child's permanent placement.

B. When the department is not the legal custodian of the child, no later than ninety days after the filing of the surrender, the agency or person to whom the surrender was made shall report in detail to the court concerning the child's adoptive placement and shall have a continuing duty to supplement the report immediately when there is any change in the child's placement prior to the filing of a petition for adoption. The information contained in the report shall include among other relevant issues whether all parental rights have been extinguished, the status of the child's placement in an adoptive home, when the adoption petition is to be filed, and other information that the court may require.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §11, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 1999, No. 1062, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2000; Acts 2001, No. 567, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 15 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 15
Use of number
Status: in_force

Unless the context indicates otherwise, words used in the singular include the plural, and the plural includes the singular.

Acts 2025, No. 488, §1.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 1438 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 1438
Notice of examination; time and place; subpoena duces tecum
Status: in_force

A party desiring to take the deposition of any person upon oral examination shall give reasonable notice in writing to every other party to the action. The notice shall state the time and place for taking the deposition and the name and address of each person to be examined, if known, and, if the name is not known, a general description sufficient to identify him or the particular class or group to which he belongs. If a subpoena duces tecum is to be served on the person to be examined, the designation of the materials to be produced as set forth in the subpoena shall be attached to or included in the notice.

The court may for cause shown lengthen or shorten the time for taking the deposition.

Acts 1976, No. 574, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 941 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 941
Declaration of unworthiness
Status: in_force

A successor shall be declared unworthy if he is convicted of a crime involving the intentional killing, or attempted killing, of the decedent or is judicially determined to have participated in the intentional, unjustified killing, or attempted killing, of the decedent. An action to declare a successor unworthy shall be brought in the succession proceedings of the decedent.

An executive pardon or pardon by operation of law does not affect the unworthiness of a successor.

Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
La. Civ. Code art. 3199 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3199
EXPENSES DURING THE LAST SICKNESS
Status: in_force

Art. 3199. Last sickness, definition.

The last sickness is considered to be that of which the debtor died; the expenses of this sickness enjoy the privilege.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 360 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 360
Hearing
Status: in_force

At the time and place fixed in the writ for the answer thereto, the court shall proceed summarily to hear the evidence and reasons adduced by the person in custody and by the custodian. The hearing shall be held in open court and may be held in term time or in vacation, or on a legal holiday.
La. Civ. Code art. 3477 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 3477
Precarious possessor; inability to prescribe
Status: in_force

Acquisitive prescription does not run in favor of a precarious possessor or his universal successor.

Acts 1982, No. 187, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1983.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 322 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 322
Exercises civil functions only in own parish; exception
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in Article 1291, the sheriff may exercise his civil functions only in the parish for which he was elected.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 4901 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 4901
Pleadings in parish and city courts
Status: in_force

In suits in a parish court or a city court, written pleadings shall be required; provided, that a court may by rule provide for oral pleadings for suits in which the amount in dispute is two thousand dollars or less, and prescribe the form of such pleadings.

Acts 1986, No. 156, §1; Acts 1987, No. 249, §1.
La. Civ. Code art. 2458 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 2458
Sale by weight, tale or measure; lump sales
Status: in_force

When things are sold by weight, tale, or measure, ownership is transferred between the parties when the seller, with the buyer's consent, weighs, counts or measures the things.

When things, such as goods or produce, are sold in a lump, ownership is transferred between the parties upon their consent, even though the things are not yet weighed, counted, or measured.

Acts 1993, No. 841, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.
La. Civ. Code art. 1556 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1556
Causes for revocation or dissolution
Status: in_force

A donation inter vivos may be revoked because of ingratitude of the donee or dissolved for the nonfulfillment of a suspensive condition or the occurrence of a resolutory condition. A donation may also be dissolved for the nonperformance of other conditions or charges.

Acts 2008, No. 204, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 842 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 842
Codefendants; presumption as to objections
Status: in_force

If an objection has been made when more than one defendant is on trial, it shall be presumed, unless the contrary appears, that the objection has been made by all the defendants.

Amended by Acts 1974, No. 207, §1.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 4269 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 4269
Investment and management of minor's property
Status: in_force

In acquiring, investing, reinvesting, exchanging, retaining, selling, and managing property for the benefit of a minor, a tutor shall exercise the judgment and care, under the circumstances then prevailing, which men of prudence, discretion, and intelligence exercise in the management of their own affairs, not in regard to speculation but in regard to the permanent disposition of their funds, considering the probable income as well as the probable safety of their capital. Within the limitations of the foregoing standard, a tutor is authorized to acquire and retain every kind of property and every kind of investment, specifically including but not by way of limitation, bonds, debentures, and other corporate obligations, and stocks, preferred or common, and securities of any open-end or closed-end management type investment company or investment trust registered under 15 U.S.C. §§80a-1 through 80a-52, as from time to time amended, which men of prudence, discretion, and intelligence acquire or retain for their own account.
La. Ch. Code art. 1281.1 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1281.1
Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of this Title is to provide procedures for the adoption of foreign-born orphans by domiciliaries of Louisiana.

Acts 1999, No. 1268, §1.
La. Ch. Code art. 1113 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 1113
Minor parents
Status: in_force

A. Except as otherwise provided herein, if a parent executing a surrender in a private adoption is a minor, the parents or tutor of the minor must join in the surrender unless the minor parent has been judicially emancipated under Civil Code Article 385 or emancipated by marriage under Civil Code Articles 379 through 384.

B. When the parents of the minor are separated or divorced, only the parent who has legal custody of the minor must join in the surrender.

C. When the minor's parents or tutor refuse to join in the act or cannot be located, the court may authorize the minor to surrender without the required consent if it finds that the minor is sufficiently mature and well-informed to surrender his child for adoption or that the surrender is otherwise in the child's best interest.

D. In an intrafamily adoption, the parents or tutor of the minor parent must join in the minor's consent to his child's adoption unless the court finds that the minor is sufficiently mature and well-informed to surrender his child for adoption or that the surrender is otherwise in the child's best interest.

E. A minor may surrender to an agency without the consent of the parents or tutor of the minor.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §11, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 1999, No. 1062, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2000.
La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 889 — LA Code / Code code-of-criminal-procedure / Article 889
Collection and disposition of fines, costs, and forfeitures
Status: in_force

The collection and disposition of fines, costs, and forfeitures shall be as provided by law.
La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 2335 — LA Code / Code code-of-civil-procedure / Article 2335
Superior mortgage or privilege
Status: in_force

The sheriff shall announce that the property is to be sold for cash subject to any security interest, mortgage, lien, or privilege thereon superior to that of the seizing creditor.

Acts 1989, No. 137, §18, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
La. Civ. Code art. 1372 — LA Code / Code civil-code / Article 1372
Observance of formalities.
Status: in_force

Partitions, made agreeably to the above rules by tutors or curators of minors, or by curators of interdicted or absent persons, are definitive; but they are only provisional, if the rules have not been observed.
La. Ch. Code art. 329 — LA Code / Code childrens-code / Article 329
Closed circuit television; testimony taken outside courtroom
Status: in_force

A. On its own motion or on the motion of the attorney for any party, a court may order that the testimony of a protected person who may have been physically or sexually abused be taken in a room other than the courtroom and be simultaneously televised by closed circuit television to the court when the court makes a specific finding of necessity based upon both of the following:

(1) Expert testimony that the protected person would be likely to suffer serious emotional distress if forced to give testimony in open court.

(2) Expert testimony that without such special shielding procedures, the protected person cannot reasonably communicate his testimony to the court.

B. The court shall ensure that the protected person cannot see or hear the accused unless such viewing or hearing is requested for purposes of identification. However, the court shall ensure that the accused is afforded the ability to consult with his attorney during the testimony of the protected person.

C. The only persons who may be present in the room with the protected person are the person or persons operating the audio-video equipment, the presiding judge, the attorneys for the state and the accused, and any person, other than a relative of the protected person, whose presence is determined by the court to be necessary to the welfare and well-being of the protected person during his testimony. The persons operating the equipment shall be confined to an adjacent room or behind a screen or mirror that permits them to see and hear the protected person during his testimony but does not permit the protected person to see or hear them.

D. Only the attorneys, or the presiding judge as authorized by law, may question the protected person.

Acts 1991, No. 235, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 2004, No. 241, §2.