---
urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:2044"
article_number: "2044"
status: active
heading: "Insolvency by failure to exercise right"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title IV › Chapter 12 › Section 2"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=109304"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1984, No. 331, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1984
    act_number: 331
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1985-01-01
    role: enactment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
---

# Art. 2044. Insolvency by failure to exercise right

If an obligor causes or increases his insolvency by failing to exercise a right, the obligee may exercise it himself, unless the right is strictly personal to the obligor.

For that purpose, the obligee must join in the suit his obligor and the third person against whom that right is asserted.