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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:1423"
article_number: "1423"
status: active
heading: "Decedent's debts charged ratably"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title I › Chapter 13 › Section 3"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=108780"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1997
    act_number: 1421
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1999-07-01
    role: enactment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
---

# Art. 1423. Decedent's debts charged ratably

Debts of the decedent are charged ratably to property that is the object of general or universal legacies and to property that devolves by intestacy, valued as of the date of death. When such property does not suffice, the debts remaining are charged in the following order:

(1) Ratably to the fruits and products of property that is the object of general or universal legacies and of property that devolves by intestacy; and

(2) Ratably to the fruits and products of property that is the object of particular legacies, and then ratably to such property.