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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3502"
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heading: "Action for the recognition of a right of inheritance"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title XXIV › Chapter 4 › Section 5"
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acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1983, No. 173, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984."
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# Art. 3502. Action for the recognition of a right of inheritance

An action for the recognition of a right of inheritance and recovery of the whole or a part of a succession is subject to a liberative prescription of thirty years. This prescription commences to run from the day of the opening of the succession.