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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:586"
article_number: "586"
status: active
heading: "Liability for debts; usufruct inter vivos"
breadcrumb: "Book II › Title III › Chapter 2 › Section 3"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110777"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1976, No. 103, §1; Acts 2010, No. 881, §1, eff. July 2, 2010."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1976
    act_number: 103
    section: 1
    role: enactment
  - act_year: 2010
    act_number: 881
    section: 1
    effective_date: 2010-07-02
    role: amendment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
---

# Art. 586. Liability for debts; usufruct inter vivos

When the usufruct is established inter vivos , the usufructuary is not liable for debts of the grantor, but if the debt is secured by an encumbrance of the thing subject to the usufruct, the thing may be sold for the payment of the debt.