Article 896

Separate property; rights of other collaterals ACTIVE

If the deceased leaves neither descendants, nor brothers, sisters, or descendants from them, nor parents, nor spouse not judicially separated, nor other ascendants, his other collaterals succeed to his separate property. Among the collateral relations, the nearest in degree excludes all the others. If there are several in the same degree, they take equally and by heads.

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  • enactment Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982

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@misc{lacivcode-art-896,
  title        = {La. Civ. Code art. 896},
  howpublished = {Louisiana Civil Code},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://theusufruct.com/cc/896},
  note         = {Snapshot 2026-05-22}
}