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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:58"
article_number: "58"
status: active
heading: "Succession rights of person presumed dead or declared dead"
breadcrumb: "Book I › Title III › Chapter 2"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110770"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1990, No. 989, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1991."
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  - act_year: 1990
    act_number: 989
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1991-01-01
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# Art. 58. Succession rights of person presumed dead or declared dead

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.