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LA Civ Code art. 893 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 893. Brothers and sisters related by half-blood

  The property that devolves to the brothers or sisters is divided among them equally, if they are all born of the same parents. If they are born of different unions, it is equally divided between the paternal and maternal lines of the deceased: brothers or sisters fully related by blood take in both lines and those related by half-blood take each in his own line. If there are brothers or sisters on one side only, they take the entirety to the exclusion of all relations in the other line.  Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
LA Civ Code art. 894 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 894. Separate property; rights of surviving spouse

  If the deceased leaves neither descendants, nor parents, nor brothers, sisters, or descendants from them, his spouse not judicially separated from him shall succeed to his separate property to the exclusion of other ascendants and other collaterals.  Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
LA Civ Code art. 895 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 895. Separate property; rights of other ascendants

If a deceased leaves neither descendants, nor brothers, sisters, or descendants from them, nor parents, nor spouse not judicially separated, his other ascendants succeed to his separate property. If the ascendants in the paternal and maternal lines are in the same degree, the property is divided into two equal shares, one of which goes to the ascendants on the paternal side, and the other to the ascendants on the maternal side, whether the number of ascendants on each side be equal or not. In this case, the ascendants in each line inherit by heads. If there is in the nearest degree but one ascendant in the two lines, such ascendant excludes ascendants of a more remote degree. Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
LA Civ Code art. 896 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 896. Separate property; rights of other collaterals

  If the deceased leaves neither descendants, nor brothers, sisters, or descendants from them, nor parents, nor spouse not judicially separated, nor other ascendants, his other collaterals succeed to his separate property. Among the collateral relations, the nearest in degree excludes all the others. If there are several in the same degree, they take equally and by heads.  Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
LA Civ Code art. 897 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 897. Ascendant's right to inherit immovables donated to descendant

  Ascendants, to the exclusion of all others, inherit the immovables given by them to their children or their descendants of a more remote degree who died without descendants, when these objects are found in the succession.  If these objects have been alienated, and the price is yet due in whole or in part, the ascendants have the right to receive the price. They also succeed to the right of reversion on the happening of any event which the child or descendant may have inserted as a condition in his favor in disposing of those objects.  Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982; Acts 2020, No. 19, §1.
LA Civ Code art. 898 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 898. Reversion of property subject to encumbrances and succession debts

  Ascendants inheriting the things mentioned in the preceding article, which they have given their children or descendants who die without issue, take them subject to all the mortgages which the donee may have imposed on them during his life.  Also ascendants exercising the right of reversion are bound to contribute to the payment of the debts of the succession, in proportion to the value of the objects given.  Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
LA Civ Code art. 899 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 899. Nearest in degree among more remote relations

  Among the successors in each class the nearest relation to the deceased, according to the following articles, is called to succeed.  Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
LA Civ Code art. 900 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 900. Degrees of relationship

  The propinquity of consanguinity is established by the number of generations, and each generation is called a degree.  Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
LA Civ Code art. 901 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 901. Direct and collateral relationship

  The series of degrees forms the line. The direct line is the series of degrees between persons who descend one from another. The collateral line is the series of degrees between persons who do not descend one from another, but who descend from a common ancestor.  In the direct line, the number of degrees is equal to the number of generations between the heir and the deceased. In the collateral line, the number of degrees is equal to the number of generations between the heir and the common ancestor, plus the number of generations between the common ancestor and the deceased.  Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
LA Civ Code art. 902 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 902. Rights of the state

  In default of blood, adopted relations, or a spouse not judicially separated, the estate of the deceased belongs to the state.  Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
LA Civ Code art. 934 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 934. Commencement of succession

Succession occurs at the death of a person. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 935 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 935. Acquisition of ownership; seizin

Immediately at the death of the decedent, universal successors acquire ownership of the estate and particular successors acquire ownership of the things bequeathed to them. Prior to the qualification of a succession representative only a universal successor may represent the decedent with respect to the heritable rights and obligations of the decedent. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 936 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 936. Continuation of the possession of decedent

The possession of the decedent is transferred to his successors, whether testate or intestate, and if testate, whether particular, general, or universal legatees. A universal successor continues the possession of the decedent with all its advantages and defects, and with no alteration in the nature of the possession. A particular successor may commence a new possession for purposes of acquisitive prescription. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 937 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 937. Transmission of rights of successor

The rights of a successor are transmitted to his own successors at his death, whether or not he accepted the rights, and whether or not he knew that the rights accrued to him. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 938 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 938. Exercise of succession rights

A. Prior to the qualification of a succession representative, a successor may exercise rights of ownership with respect to his interests in a thing of the estate as well as his interest in the estate as a whole. B. If a successor exercises his rights of ownership after the qualification of a succession representative, the effect of that exercise is subordinate to the administration of the estate. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999; Acts 2001, No. 556, §1, eff. June 22, 2001.
LA Civ Code art. 939 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 939. Existence of successor

A successor must exist at the death of the decedent. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 940 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 940. Same; unborn child

An unborn child conceived at the death of the decedent and thereafter born alive shall be considered to exist at the death of the decedent. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 941 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 941. Declaration of unworthiness

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. 942 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 942. Persons who may bring action

A. An action to declare a successor unworthy may be brought only by a person who would succeed in place of or in concurrence with the successor to be declared unworthy, or by one who claims through such a person. B. When a person who may bring the action is a minor or an interdict, the court, on its own motion, or on the motion of any family member, may appoint an attorney to represent the minor or interdict for purposes of investigating and pursuing an action to declare a successor unworthy. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999; Acts 2001, No. 824, §1.
LA Civ Code art. 943 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 943. Reconciliation or forgiveness

A successor shall not be declared unworthy if he proves reconciliation with or forgiveness by the decedent. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 944 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 944. Prescription

An action to declare a successor unworthy is subject to a liberative prescription of five years from the death of the decedent as to intestate successors and five years from the probate of the will as to testate successors. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 945 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 945. Effects of declaration of unworthiness

A judicial declaration that a person is unworthy has the following consequences: (1) The successor is deprived of his right to the succession to which he had been called. (2) If the successor has possession of any property of the decedent, he must return it, along with all fruits and products he has derived from it. He must also account for an impairment in value caused by his encumbering it or failing to preserve it as a prudent administrator. (3) If the successor no longer has possession because of a transfer or other loss of possession due to his fault, he must account for the value of the property at the time of the transfer or other loss of possession, along with all fruits and products he has derived from it. He must also account for any impairment in value caused by his encumbering the property or failing to preserve it as a prudent administrator before he lost possession. (4) If the successor has alienated, encumbered, or leased the property by onerous title, and there is no fraud on the part of the other party, the validity of the transaction is not affected by the declaration of unworthiness. But if he has donated the property and it remains in the hands of the donee or the donee's successors by gratuitous title, the donation may be annulled. (5) The successor shall not serve as an executor, trustee, attorney or other fiduciary pursuant to a designation as such in the testament or any codicils thereto. Neither shall he serve as administrator, attorney, or other fiduciary in an intestate succession. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 946 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 946. Devolution of succession rights of successor declared unworthy

A. If the decedent died intestate, when a successor is declared unworthy his succession rights devolve as if he had predeceased the decedent; but if the decedent died testate, then the succession rights devolve in accordance with the provisions for testamentary accretion as if the unworthy successor had predeceased the testator. B. When the succession rights devolve upon a child of the successor who is declared unworthy, the unworthy successor and the other parent of the child cannot claim a legal usufruct upon the property inherited by their child. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999; Acts 2001, No. 824, §1.
LA Civ Code art. 947 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 947. Right of successor to accept or renounce

A successor is not obligated to accept rights to succeed. He may accept some of those rights and renounce others. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 948 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 948. Minor successor deemed to accept

A successor who is a minor is deemed to accept rights to succeed, but his legal representative may renounce on behalf of the minor when expressly authorized by the court. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 949 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 949. Death of decedent as prerequisite to acceptance or renunciation

A person may not accept or renounce rights to succeed before the death of the decedent. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 950 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 950. Knowledge required of successor as prerequisite to acceptance or renunciation

An acceptance or renunciation is valid only if the successor knows of the death of the person to be succeeded and knows that he has rights as a successor. It is not necessary that he know the extent of those rights or the nature of his relationship to the decedent. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 951 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 951. Nullity of premature acceptance or renunciation

A premature acceptance or renunciation is absolutely null. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 952 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 952. Probate or annulment of testament after acceptance or renunciation of succession

An acceptance or renunciation of rights to succeed by intestacy is null if a testament is subsequently probated or given the effect of probate. An acceptance or renunciation of rights to succeed in a testate succession is null if the probate of the testament is subsequently annulled or the rights are altered, amended, or revoked by a subsequent testament or codicil. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999; Acts 2001, No. 824, §1.
LA Civ Code art. 953 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 953. Legacy subject to a suspensive condition

A legacy that is subject to a suspensive condition may be accepted or renounced either before or after the fulfillment of the condition. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 954 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 954. Retroactive effects of acceptance and renunciation

To the extent that he accepts rights to succeed, a successor is considered as having succeeded to those rights at the moment of death of the decedent. To the extent that a successor renounces rights to succeed, he is considered never to have had them. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 956 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 956. Claims of successor who is a creditor of the estate

A successor may assert a claim that he has as a creditor of the estate whether he accepts or renounces his succession rights. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 957 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 957. Formal or informal acceptance

Acceptance may be either formal or informal. It is formal when the successor expressly accepts in writing or assumes the quality of successor in a judicial proceeding. It is informal when the successor does some act that clearly implies his intention to accept. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 958 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 958. Informal acceptance; use or disposition of property

Acts of the successor concerning property that he does not know belongs to the estate do not imply an intention to accept. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 959 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 959. Informal acceptance; act of ownership

An act of ownership that can be done only as a successor implies acceptance, but an act that is merely administrative, custodial, or preservative does not imply acceptance. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 960 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 960. Donative renunciation deemed acceptance

A renunciation shall be deemed to be an acceptance to the extent that it causes the renounced rights to devolve in a manner other than that provided by law or by the testament if the decedent died testate. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 961 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 961. Effect of acceptance

Acceptance obligates the successor to pay estate debts in accordance with the provisions of this Title and other applicable laws. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 962 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 962. Presumption of acceptance

In the absence of a renunciation, a successor is presumed to accept succession rights. Nonetheless, for good cause the successor may be compelled to accept or renounce. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 963 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 963. Requirement of formality

Renunciation must be express and in writing. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 964 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 964. Accretion upon renunciation in intestate successions

The rights of an intestate successor who renounces accrete to those persons who would have succeeded to them if the successor had predeceased the decedent. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 965 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 965. Accretion upon renunciation in testate successions

In the absence of a governing testamentary disposition, the rights of a testate successor who renounces accrete to those persons who would have succeeded to them if the legatee had predeceased the decedent. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999; Acts 2001, No. 824, §1.
LA Civ Code art. 966 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 966. Acceptance or renunciation of accretion

A person to whom succession rights accrete may accept or renounce all or part of the accretion. The acceptance or renunciation of the accretion need not be consistent with his acceptance or renunciation of other succession rights. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 967 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 967. Acceptance of succession by creditor

A creditor of a successor may, with judicial authorization, accept succession rights in the successor's name if the successor has renounced them in whole or in part to the prejudice of his creditor's rights. In such a case, the renunciation may be annulled in favor of the creditor to the extent of his claim against the successor, but it remains effective against the successor. Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.
LA Civ Code art. 1095 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1095. Vacant succession, definition.

A succession is called vacant when no one claims it, or when all the heirs are unknown, or when all the known heirs to it have renounced it.
LA Civ Code art. 1096 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1096. Intestate succession, definition.

A succession is called intestate when the deceased has left no will, or when his will has been revoked or annulled as irregular. Therefore the heirs to whom a succession has fallen by the effects of law only, are called heirs ab intestato.
LA Civ Code art. 1097 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1097. Vacant succession; administration by administrators.

Vacant successions are administered by legal representatives known as administrators of vacant successions. Amended by Acts 1960, No. 30, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1961.
LA Civ Code art. 1100 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1100. Liability for unauthorized possession of vacant succession.

In case any person shall take possession of a vacant succession, or a part thereof, without being duly authorized to that effect, with the intent of converting the same to his own use, he shall be liable to pay all the debts of the said estate, exclusive of the damages to be claimed by the parties who may have suffered thereby.
LA Civ Code art. 1148 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1148. Interest on succession funds; liability for private use.

A curator of a vacant succession or of absent heirs, owes no interest on the sums of money in his hands belonging to the succession which he administers, but he is forbidden from using them on his private account, under the pain of dismissal and responsibility for all damages caused thereby.
LA Civ Code art. 1171 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1171. Persons authorized to make sale.

Representatives of successions shall have the right to cause sales of the property administered by them to be made either by the sheriff or an auctioneer, or to make it themselves; but in the event of making the sales themselves, they shall receive no commission therefor.
LA Civ Code art. 1188 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1188. Unpaid new creditors' action against paid creditors; prescription.

If, after the creditors of the succession have been paid by the curator, in conformity with the dispositions of the preceding articles, creditors present themselves, who have not made themselves known before, and if there does not remain in the hands of the curator a sum sufficient to pay what is due them, in whole or in part, these creditors have an action against those who have been paid, to compel them to refund the proportion they are bound to contribute, in order to give the new creditors a part equal to that which they would have received, had they presented themselves at the time of the payment of the debts of the succession. But this action on the part of the creditors who have not been paid, against the creditors who have been, is prescribed by the lapse of three years, counting from the date of the order or judgment, in virtue of which the payment has been made. In all these cases, the creditors who have thus presented themselves can in no manner disturb the curator on account of the payments he has made under the authorization of the judge, as before stated.
LA Civ Code art. 1192 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1192. Termination of curator's duties on appearance of heirs.

The duties of the curators cease when the heirs, or other persons having a right to the succession administered by them, present themselves or send their powers of attorney to claim the succession, and furnish security if required by law. Amended by Acts 1981, No. 254, §1.
LA Civ Code art. 1227 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1227. Collation, definition.

The collation of goods is the supposed or real return to the mass of the succession which an heir makes of property which he received in advance of his share or otherwise, in order that such property may be divided together with the other effects of the succession.
LA Civ Code art. 1228 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Civil Code|Art. 1228. Collation by descendants

A. Children or grandchildren, coming to the succession of their fathers, mothers, or other ascendants, must collate what they have received from them by donation inter vivos, directly or indirectly, and they cannot claim the legacies made to them by such ascendants unless the donations and legacies have been made to them expressly as an advantage over their coheirs and besides their portion. B. This rule takes place whether the children or their descendants succeed to their ascendants as legal or as testamentary heirs. Acts 2001, No. 572, §1.