---
urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:1472"
article_number: "1472"
status: active
heading: "Capacity to receive, time for existence"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title II › Chapter 2"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=108792"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1991, No. 363, §1."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1991
    act_number: 363
    section: 1
    role: enactment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
---

# Art. 1472. Capacity to receive, time for existence

Capacity to receive a donation inter vivos must exist at the time the donee accepts the donation. Capacity to receive a donation mortis causa must exist at the time of death of the testator.