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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:891"
article_number: "891"
status: active
heading: "Devolution of separate property; parents and brothers and sisters"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title I › Chapter 2"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=111043"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982; Acts 2004, No. 26, §1."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1981
    act_number: 919
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1982-01-01
    role: enactment
  - act_year: 2004
    act_number: 26
    section: 1
    role: amendment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
---

# Art. 891. Devolution of separate property; parents and brothers and sisters

If the deceased leaves no descendants but is survived by a father, mother, or both, and by a brother or sister, or both, or descendants from them, the brothers and sisters or their descendants succeed to the separate property of the deceased subject to a usufruct in favor of the surviving parent or parents. If both parents survive the deceased, the usufruct shall be joint and successive.