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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:944"
article_number: "944"
status: active
heading: "Prescription"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title I › Chapter 5"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=111072"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999."
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  - act_year: 1997
    act_number: 1421
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1999-07-01
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# Art. 944. Prescription

An action to declare a successor unworthy is subject to a liberative prescription of five years from the death of the decedent as to intestate successors and five years from the probate of the will as to testate successors.