---
urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3072"
article_number: "3072"
status: active
heading: "Formal requirements; effects"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title XVII"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110115"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 2007, No. 138, §1."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 2007
    act_number: 138
    section: 1
    role: enactment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
---

# Art. 3072. Formal requirements; effects

A compromise shall be made in writing or recited in open court, in which case the recitation shall be susceptible of being transcribed from the record of the proceedings.