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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:190"
article_number: "190"
status: active
heading: "Time limit for disavowal by heir or legatee"
breadcrumb: "Book I › Title VII › Chapter 2 › Section 2 › Subsection A"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=109145"
acts_citations_raw: "Amended by Acts 1976, No. 430, §1; Acts 1999, No. 790, §1; Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1976
    act_number: 430
    section: 1
    role: enactment
  - act_year: 1999
    act_number: 790
    section: 1
    role: amendment
  - act_year: 2005
    act_number: 192
    section: 1
    effective_date: 2005-06-29
    role: amendment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
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# Art. 190. Time limit for disavowal by heir or legatee

If the prescription has commenced to run and the husband dies before the prescription has accrued, his successor whose interest is adversely affected may institute an action for disavowal of paternity. The action of the successor is subject to a liberative prescription of one year. This prescription commences to run from the day of the death of the husband.

If the prescription has not yet commenced to run, the action of the successor is subject to a liberative prescription of one year. This prescription commences to run from the day the successor is notified in writing that a party in interest has asserted that the husband is the father of the child.