Article 58

Succession rights of person presumed dead or declared dead ACTIVE

A person who is presumed to be dead or who has been declared dead at a time a succession would have been opened in his favor cannot be a successor. The estate of the deceased devolves as if that person were dead at the time of the opening of the succession.

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  • enactment Acts 1990, No. 989, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1991

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@misc{lacivcode-art-58,
  title        = {La. Civ. Code art. 58},
  howpublished = {Louisiana Civil Code},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://theusufruct.com/cc/58},
  note         = {Snapshot 2026-05-22}
}