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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:894"
article_number: "894"
status: active
heading: "Separate property; rights of surviving spouse"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title I › Chapter 2"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=111046"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1981
    act_number: 919
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1982-01-01
    role: enactment
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---

# Art. 894. Separate property; rights of surviving spouse

If the deceased leaves neither descendants, nor parents, nor brothers, sisters, or descendants from them, his spouse not judicially separated from him shall succeed to his separate property to the exclusion of other ascendants and other collaterals.