---
urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:964"
article_number: "964"
status: active
heading: "Accretion upon renunciation in intestate successions"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title I › Chapter 6 › Section 3"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=111094"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1997
    act_number: 1421
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1999-07-01
    role: enactment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
---

# Art. 964. Accretion upon renunciation in intestate successions

The rights of an intestate successor who renounces accrete to those persons who would have succeeded to them if the successor had predeceased the decedent.