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LA Civ Code art. 1229 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1229. Reasons for collation.

The obligation of collating is founded on the equality which must be naturally observed between children and other lawful descendants, who divide among them the succession of their father, mother and other ascendants; and also on the presumption that what was given or bequeathed to children * by their ascendants was so disposed of in advance of what they might one day expect from their succession. * English translation of French text incomplete; should include "or descendants."
LA Civ Code art. 1230 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1230. Presumption in favor of collation.

Collation must take place, whether the donor has formerly [formally] ordered it, or has remained silent on the subject; for collation is always presumed, where it has not been expressly forbidden.
LA Civ Code art. 1231 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1231. Express exclusion of collation; extra portion.

But things given or bequeathed to children or other descendants by their ascendants, shall not be collated, if the donor has formally expressed his will that what he thus gave was an advantage or extra part, unless the value of the object given exceed the disposable portion, in which case the excess is subject to collation.
LA Civ Code art. 1232 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1232. Method of declaring dispensation from collation

The declaration that the gift or legacy is made as an advantage or extra portion may be made in the instrument where such disposition is contained, or afterwards by an act passed before a notary and two witnesses, or in the donor's last will and testament. Unless expressly stated to the contrary, a declaration of dispensation from collation made in the last will and testament of the donor shall be effective as a dispensation from collating donations made both before and after execution of said testament. Acts 1986, No. 246, §1. {{NOTE: SEE ACTS 1986, NO. 246, §2.}}
LA Civ Code art. 1233 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1233. Sufficiency of declaration.

The declaration that the gift or legacy is intended as an advantage or extra portion, may be made in other equivalent terms, provided they indicate, in an unequivocal manner, that such was the will of the donor.
LA Civ Code art. 1234 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1234. Reduction of donations exceeding disposable portion; calculation of legitime.

If, upon calculation of the value of advantages thus given, and of the other effects remaining in the succession, such remaining part should prove insufficient to give to the other children their legitimate portion, the donee would then be obliged to collate the sum by him received, as far as necessary to complete such portion, though he would wish to keep the donation, and renounce the inheritance; and in this calculation of the legitimate portion, the property given or bequeathed by the ascendants, not only to their children, but even to all other persons, whether relations or strangers, must be included.
LA Civ Code art. 1235 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1235. Persons entitled to demand collation

The right to demand collation is confined to descendants of the first degree who qualify as forced heirs, and only applies with respect to gifts made within the three years prior to the decedent's death, and valued as of the date of the gift. Any provision of the Civil Code to the contrary is hereby repealed. Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 77, §1.
LA Civ Code art. 1237 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1237. Renouncing heir's right to donations not exceeding disposable portion.

If children, or other lawful descendants holding property or legacies subject to be collated, should renounce the succession of the ascendant, from whom they have received such property, they may retain the gift, or claim the legacy to them made, without being subject to any collation. If, however, the remaining amount of the inheritance should not be sufficient for the legitimate portion of the other children, including in the succession of the deceased the property which the person renouncing would have collated, had he become heir, he shall then be obliged to collate up to the sum necessary to complete such legitimate portion.
LA Civ Code art. 1238 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1238. Grandchildren; collation of donations made by grandparent after death of parent

A. To make descendants liable to collation, as prescribed in the preceding Articles, they must appear in the quality of heirs to the succession of the ascendants from whom they immediately have received the gift or legacy. B. Therefore, grandchildren, to whom a gift was made or a legacy left by their grandfather or grandmother, after the death of their father or mother, are obliged to collate, when they are called to the inheritance of the grandfather or grandmother, jointly with the other grandchildren, or by representation with their uncles or aunts, brothers or sisters of their father or mother, because it is presumed that their grandfather or grandmother had intended to make the gift, or leave the legacy by anticipation.  Acts 1990, No. 147, §1, eff. July 1, 1990; Acts 1995, No. 1180, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.
LA Civ Code art. 1239 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1239. Grandchildren; right to donations made by grandparent during life of parent

A. But gifts made or legacies left to a grandchild by his grandfather or grandmother during the life of his father, are always reputed to be exempt from collation. B. The father, inheriting from the grandfather, is not liable to collate the gifts or legacies left to his child. Acts 1990, No. 147, §1, eff. July 1, 1990; Acts 1995, No. 1180, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.
LA Civ Code art. 1240 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1240. Grandchildren; collation of donations made by grandparent to parent.

In like manner, the grandchild, when inheriting in his own right from the grandfather or grandmother, is not obliged to refund the gifts made to his father, even though he should have accepted the succession; but if the grandchild comes in only by right of representation, he must collate what had been given to his father, even though he should have renounced his inheritance.
LA Civ Code art. 1241 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1241. Collation by great grandchildren and more remote descendants.

What has been said in the three preceding articles, of grandchildren inheriting from their grandfather or grandmother, must be understood of the great-grandchildren and other lawful descendants called to inherit from their ascendants, either in their own name or by right of representation.
LA Civ Code art. 1242 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1242. Collation; succession of donor.

The collation is made only to the succession of the donor. Amended by Acts 1980, No. 565, §4.
LA Civ Code art. 1243 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1243. Expenditures subject to collation

Collation is due for what has been expended by the father and mother to procure an establishment of their descendant coming to their succession, or for the payment of his debts. Amended by Acts 1979, No. 711, §1; Acts 2004, No. 26, §1.
LA Civ Code art. 1244 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1244. Expenditures not subject to collation.

Neither the expenses of board, support, education and apprenticeship are subject to collation, nor are marriage presents which do not exceed the disposable portion.
LA Civ Code art. 1245 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1245. Manual gifts.

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. 1246 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1246. Profits from contracts with ascendant.

The heir is not bound to collate the profits he has made from contracts made with his ascendant to whom he succeeds unless the contracts, at the time of their being made, gave the heir some indirect advantage.
LA Civ Code art. 1247 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1247. Share of partnership with ascendant.

Also no collation is due for a partnership made without fraud with the deceased, if the conditions of the partnership are proved by an authentic act.
LA Civ Code art. 1248 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1248. Advantages other than donation.

The advantage which a father bestows upon his son, though in any other manner than by donation or legacy, is likewise subject to collation. Thus, when a father has sold a thing to his son at a very low price, or has paid for him the price of some purchase, for [or] has spent money to improve his son's estate, all that is subject to collation.
LA Civ Code art. 1249 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1249. Wages for services to ascendant.

The obligation of collation does not exclude the child or descendant coming to the succession of his father, mother or other ascendant, from claiming wages which may be due to him for having administered the property of the ascendant, or for other services.
LA Civ Code art. 1250 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1250. Immovables destroyed while in possession of donee.

Immovable property, given by a father, mother or other ascendant, to one of their children or descendants, and which has been destroyed by accident, while in the possession of the donee and without his fault, previous to the opening of the succession, is not subject to collation. If, on the contrary, it is by the fault or negligence of the donee that the immovable property has been destroyed, he is bound to collate to the amount of the value which the property would have had at the time of the opening of the succession.
LA Civ Code art. 1251 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1251. Methods of making collations.

Collations are made in kind or by taking less.
LA Civ Code art. 1252 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1252. Collation in kind, definition.

The collation is made in kind, when the thing which has been given, is delivered up by the donee to be united to the mass of the succession.
LA Civ Code art. 1253 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1253. Collation by taking less, definition.

The collation is made by taking less, when the donee diminishes the portion he inherits, in proportion to the value of the object he has received, and takes so much less from the surplus of the effects as is explained in the chapter which treats of partitions.
LA Civ Code art. 1254 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1254. Movables or immovables.

In the execution of the collation it must first be considered whether the things subject to it are movables or immovables.
LA Civ Code art. 1255 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1255. Collation of immovables.

If an immovable has been given, and the donee hath it in his possession at the time of the partition, he has the choice to make the collation in kind or by taking less, unless the donor has imposed on him the condition of making the collation in kind, in which case it can not be made in any other manner than that prescribed by the donor, unless it be with the consent of the other heirs who must be all of age, present or represented in this State.
LA Civ Code art. 1256 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1256. Immovables collated in kind; reimbursement for improvements.

The donee who collates in kind an immovable, which has been given to him, must be reimbursed by his coheirs for the expenses which have improved the estate, in proportion to the increase of value which it has received thereby.
LA Civ Code art. 1257 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1257. Immovables collated in kind; allowance for expenses of preservation.

The coheirs are bound to allow to the donee the necessary expenses which he has incurred for the preservation of the estate, though they may not have augmented its value.
LA Civ Code art. 1258 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1258. Immovables collated in kind; removal by donee of works erected for his pleasure.

As to works made on the estate for the mere pleasure of the donee, no reimbursement is due to him for them; he has, however, the right to take them away, if he can do it without injuring the estate, and leave things in the same situation they were at the time of the donation.
LA Civ Code art. 1259 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1259. Kinds of expenses made on immovable property.

Expenses made on immovable property are distinguished by three kinds: necessary, useful, and those for mere pleasure. Necessary expenses are those which are indispensable to the preservation of the thing. Useful expenses are those which increase the value of the immovable property, but without which the estate can be preserved. Expenses for mere pleasure are those which are only made for the accommodation or convenience of the owner or possessor of the estate, and which do not increase its value.
LA Civ Code art. 1260 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1260. Deterioration and damage to immovable, liability of donee.

The donee, who collates in kind the immovable property given to him, is* accountable for the deteriorations and damage which have diminished its value, when caused by his fault or negligence. * English translation of French text incomplete; should include "on his part."
LA Civ Code art. 1261 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1261. Destruction of immovable after election to collate in kind.

If within the time and in the form prescribed in the chapter which treats of partitions, the donee has made his election to collate in kind the immovable property which has been given to him, and it is afterwards destroyed, without the act or fault of the donee, the loss is borne by the succession, and the donee shall not be bound to collate the value of the property.
LA Civ Code art. 1262 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1262. Partial destruction of immovable after election to collate in kind.

If the immovable property be only destroyed in part, it shall be collated in the state in which it is.
LA Civ Code art. 1263 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1263. Destruction of immovable after election to collate by taking less.

But if the immovable property is destroyed after the donee has declared that he wishes to collate by taking less, the loss is his, and he is bound to take less from the succession, in the same manner as if the property had not been destroyed.
LA Civ Code art. 1264 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1264. Creditors' rights on immovable collated in kind.

When the collation is made in kind, the effects are united to the mass of the succession as they may be burdened with real rights created by operation of law or by onerous title. In such a case, the donee is accountable for the resulting diminution of the value of the immovable. Amended by Acts 1981, No. 739, §1.
LA Civ Code art. 1265 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1265. Preservation of creditor's mortgage rights after partition.

In the case mentioned in the preceding article, if the property mortgaged, which has been collated in kind, falls by the partition to the donee, the mortgage continues to exist thereon as if it had never been collated; but if the donee receives for his portion other movables or immovables of the succession, the creditor shall have a privilege for the amount of his mortgage on the property which has thus fallen to his debtor by the partition.
LA Civ Code art. 1266 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1266. Immovables in excess of disposable portion; collation in kind.

When the gift of immovable property, made to a lawful child or descendant, exceeds the portion which the ascendant could legally dispose of, the donee may make the collation of this excess in kind, if such excess can be separated conveniently.
LA Civ Code art. 1267 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1267. Immovables in excess of disposable portion; collation by taking less.

If, on the contrary, the retrenchment of the excess over and above the disposable portion can not conveniently be made, the donee is bound to collate the excess by taking less, as is hereafter prescribed for the cases in which the collation is made of immovable property given him otherwise than as advantage or extra portion.
LA Civ Code art. 1268 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1268. Collation in kind; retention of immovable until reimbursement of expenses.

The donee, who makes the collation in kind of the immovable property given to him, may keep possession of the same until the final reimbursement of the sums to him due for the necessary and useful expenses which he has made thereon, after deducting the amount of the damage the estate has suffered through his fault or neglect, as is before provided.
LA Civ Code art. 1269 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1269. Collation by taking less; valuation of immovable.

When the donee has elected to collate the immovable property given him by taking less on the part which comes to him from the succession, the collation must be made according to the value which the immovable property had at the opening of the succession, a deduction being made for the expenses incurred thereon, in conformity with what has been heretofore prescribed.
LA Civ Code art. 1270 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1270. Voluntary alienation or negligent loss of immovables subject to collation.

If the donee has voluntarily alienated the immovable property which has been given him, or if he has permitted it to be seized and sold for the payment of his debts, or if it has been destroyed by his fault or negligence, he shall not be the less bound to make the collation of it, according to the value which the immovable would have had at the time of the opening of the succession, deducting expenses, as is provided in the foregoing Article. Amended by Acts 1981, No. 739, §1.
LA Civ Code art. 1271 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1271. Forced alienation of immovables subject to collation.

But if the donee has been forced to alienate the immovable property, he shall be obliged to collate by taking less the price he has received from this sale and no more. As, for example, if the donee shall be obliged to submit to a sale of the immovable for some object of public utility, or to discharge a mortgage imposed by the donor, or because the immovable was held in common with another person who has prayed for the sale in order to obtain a partition of it.
LA Civ Code art. 1272 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1272. Sale by donee and subsequent destruction of immovable subject to collation.

If the immovable property which has been given has been sold by the donee, and afterwards is destroyed by accident in the possession of the purchaser, the donee shall only be obliged to collate by taking less the price he received for the sale.
LA Civ Code art. 1273 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1273. Collation by taking less; coheirs' election of collation by sale or in kind.

When the collation is made by taking less, the coheirs to whom the collation is due have a right to require a sale of the property remaining to the succession, in order to be paid from the proceeds of this sale, not only the collation which is due to them, but the part which comes to them from the surplus of these proceeds, unless they prefer to pay themselves the amount of the collation due to them by taking such * movables and immovables of the succession as they may choose, according to the appraisement in the inventory, or the appraisement which serves as a basis to the partition. * English translation of French text incomplete; should include "a proportionate value of."
LA Civ Code art. 1274 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1274. Failure of coheirs to make timely election.

If the coheirs to whom the collation is made by taking less, wish that the effects of the succession be sold, in order that they may be paid what is due them, they are bound to decide thereon in three days from their being notified of the motion of the donee to that effect, before the judge of the partition, otherwise they shall be deprived of this right, and shall be considered as having consented to receive payment of the collation due them in effects and property of the succession, or otherwise from the hands of the donee.
LA Civ Code art. 1275 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1275. Payment of collation by sale of succession effects.

When the coheirs, thus notified, require the sale of the effects of the succession to pay themselves the collation due them, the sale shall be made at public auction, in the same manner as when it is necessary to sell property held in common, in order to effect a partition.
LA Civ Code art. 1276 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1276. Payment of collation with property of succession.

If, on the contrary, the coheirs to whom the collation is due prefer to be paid the amount thereof in property and effects of the succession, or are divested of their right to require the sale of these effects, * they shall be paid the amount of the collation in movables, immovables and other effects of the succession, in the same manner as is prescribed in the chapter which treats of partitions. But in no case will these heirs be obliged to receive in payment credits of the succession. * English translation of French text incomplete; should include "as is said in the preceding article."
LA Civ Code art. 1277 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1277. Payment of collation by donee where succession effects insufficient.

If there are no effects in the succession, or not sufficient to satisfy the heirs to whom the collation is due, the amount of the collation, or the balance due on it, shall be paid them by the heir who owes the collation.
LA Civ Code art. 1278 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1278. Time and security for payment.

This heir shall have one year to pay the sum thus by him due, if he furnish his coheirs with his obligation payable at that time, with eight per cent. interest, and give a special mortgage to secure the payment thereof, either on the immovable property subject to the collation, if it is in his possession, or in want thereof, on some other immovable property which may suit the coheirs.
LA Civ Code art. 1279 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1279. Rights of coheirs against defaulting heir; foreclosure of special mortgage.

If the heir, who has been allowed to furnish his obligation as mentioned in the preceding article, fails to fulfill his engagement at the expiration of the year granted to him, the heirs, in whose favor this obligation has been made, or their representatives, have a right to cause the property mortgaged to them to be seized and sold, without any appraisement, and at the price offered at the first exposure for sale.
LA Civ Code art. 1280 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1280. Privilege of seizing coheirs on proceeds of mortgage sale.

If the property thus seized and sold is the same which was subject to the collation, the coheirs seizing, or their representatives, shall be paid the amount of their debt due for the collation, by privilege and in preference to all the creditors of the donee, even to those to whom he may have mortgaged the property for his own debts or engagements, previous to the opening of the succession, saving to these mortgage creditors their recourse against other property of the donee.