La. Civ. Code art. 888

This is the official text of La. Civ. Code art. 888, part of Louisiana’s Civil Code — louisiana's civil law tradition codifies persons, property, obligations, and family relations here rather than in a separate statutory code.

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Succession rights of descendants

Official statutory text

Descendants succeed to the property of their ascendants. They take in equal portions and by heads if they are in the same degree. They take by roots if all or some of them succeed by representation.

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

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