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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:896"
article_number: "896"
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heading: "Separate property; rights of other collaterals"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title I › Chapter 2"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=111048"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1981, No. 919, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982."
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  - act_year: 1981
    act_number: 919
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1982-01-01
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# Art. 896. Separate property; rights of other collaterals

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.