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Louisiana's Requirements for a Will	Summary of Louisiana's Will Requirements:
Statutes Governing Louisiana's Will Requirements:
Testaments; form
A disposition mortis causa may be made only in the form of a testament authorized by law.
Louisiana Requirements for a Will - Civil Code, Art. 1570
Testaments with others or by others prohibited
A testament may not be executed by a mandatary for the testator. Nor may more than one person execute a testament in the same instrument.
Louisiana Requirements for a Will - Civil Code, Art. 1571
Testamentary dispositions committed to the choice of a third person
Testamentary dispositions committed to the choice of a third person are null, except as expressly provided by law. A testator may delegate to his executor the authority to allocate specific assets to satisfy a legacy expressed in terms of a value or a quantum, including a fractional share.
The testator may expressly delegate to his executor the authority to allocate a legacy to one or more entities or trustees of trusts organized for educational, charitable, religious, or other philanthropic purposes. The entities or trusts may be designated by the testator or, when authorized to do so, by the executor in his discretion. In addition, the testator may expressly delegate to his executor the authority to impose conditions on those legacies.
Louisiana Requirements for a Will - Civil Code, Art. 1572
The formalities prescribed for the execution of a testament must be observed or the testament is absolutely null.
Louisiana Requirements for a Will - Civil Code, Art. 1573
Forms of testaments
There are two forms of testaments: olographic and notarial.
Louisiana Requirements for a Will - Civil Code, Art. 1574
Louisiana Requirements for a Will - Civil Code, Art. 1575
A notarial testament is one that is executed in accordance with the formalities of Articles 1577 through 1580.1.
Louisiana Requirements for a Will - Civil Code, Art. 1576
Louisiana Requirements for a Will - Civil Code, Art. 1577
Notarial testament; testator literate and sighted but physically unable to sign
(2) In the presence of the testator and each other, the notary and the witnesses shall sign the following declaration, or one substantially similar: "In our presence the testator has declared or signified that this is his testament, and that he is able to see and read and knows how to sign his name but is unable to do so because of a physical infirmity; and in our presence he has affixed, or caused to be affixed, his mark or name at the end of the testament and on each other separate page, and in the presence of the testator and each other, we have subscribed our names this _____day of ____, _____."
Louisiana Requirements for a Will - Civil Code, Art. 1578
Notarial testament; testator unable to read
Louisiana Requirements for a Will - Civil Code, Art. 1579 Notarial testament in braille form
A testator who knows how to and is physically able to read braille, may execute a notarial testament according to the following procedure:
(4) The declaration in the notarial testament in braille form must be in writing, not in braille.
Louisiana Requirements for a Will - Civil Code, Art. 1580
Deaf or deaf and blind notarial testament; form; witnesses1
Louisiana Requirements for a Will - Civil Code, Art. 1580.1 Persons incompetent to be witnesses
A person cannot be a witness to any testament if he is insane, blind, under the age of sixteen, or unable to sign his name. A person who is competent but deaf or unable to read cannot be a witness to a notarial testament under Article 1579.
Louisiana Requirements for a Will - Civil Code, Art. 1581 Effect of witness or notary as legatee
The fact that a witness or the notary is a legatee does not invalidate the testament. A legacy to a witness or the notary is invalid, but if the witness would be an heir in intestacy, the witness may receive the lesser of his intestate share or the legacy in the testament.
Louisiana Requirements for a Will - Civil Code, Art. 1582
Persons prohibited from witnessing; effect
>A person may not be a witness to a testament if that person is a spouse of a legatee at the time of the execution of the testament. The fact that a witness is the spouse of a legatee does not invalidate the testament; however, a legacy to a witness' spouse is invalid, if the witness is the spouse of the legatee at the time of the execution of the testament. If the legacy is invalid under the provisions of this Article, and if the legatee would be an heir in intestacy, the legatee may receive the lesser of his intestate share or legacy in the testament. Any testamentary terms or restrictions placed on the legacy shall remain in effect.
Louisiana Requirements for a Will - Civil Code, Art. 1582.1
Will probated outside state may be allowed and recorded
A will duly proved, allowed, and admitted to probate outside of this state, may be allowed and recorded in the proper court of any parish in this state, in which the testator shall have left any estate.
Louisiana Requirements for a Will - Civil Code
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