---
urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:965"
article_number: "965"
status: active
heading: "Accretion upon renunciation in testate successions"
breadcrumb: "Book III › Title I › Chapter 6 › Section 3"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=111095"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999; Acts 2001, No. 824, §1."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1997
    act_number: 1421
    section: 1
    effective_date: 1999-07-01
    role: enactment
  - act_year: 2001
    act_number: 824
    section: 1
    role: amendment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
---

# Art. 965. Accretion upon renunciation in testate successions

In the absence of a governing testamentary disposition, the rights of a testate successor who renounces accrete to those persons who would have succeeded to them if the legatee had predeceased the decedent.