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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:1724"
article_number: "1724"
status: active
heading: "Right of parents and ascendants to partition property among descendants"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title II › Chapter 7"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=108958"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 2004, No. 26, §1. * English translation of French text incomplete; should include \"of one kind or another.\""
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# Art. 1724. Right of parents and ascendants to partition property among descendants

Fathers and mothers and other ascendants may make a distribution and partition of their property among their children and descendants, either by designating the quantum of the parts and partitions [portions] which they assign to each of them, or in designating the property* that shall compose their respective lots.