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Devolution (Special rules (Adoption, Marriage, Usufruct, Forced heirship,…
Devolution
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Types of succession
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Intestate
Property classification
Separate property
6 classes
First class
Descendants: children, grandchildren
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Second class
If there are no heirs in the 1st class the siblings of the decedent and their descendants succeed to the defendants seperate propert with a usufruct to the parents. If there are no parents the siblings succeed in full ownership.
Special:
891 usufruct to parents. Lasts until parents death if one parent dies the other gets the usufruct as a successive usufruct
893 Special rules for half siblings: If decedant left siblings on maternal and paternal sides and 1 is half these rules apply
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Siblings take by heads, reps take by roots.
If there is a surviving parent of decedant the parents take usufruct over property. If no sibling parents take full ownership. Can only take by heads not roots
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Third class
894: Surviving spouse not judicially separated. If there are no heirs in the first or second class the surviving spouse notnjuducially separated with succeed to the defendants seperate property to the exclusion of other ascendants or collaterals.
Special:
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Judicial separation: divorce, judicial declaration of nullity when rep null and judicial order for seperation from bed and board for covenant marriage
Six class
902- if there are no heirs in the 1-5th class the state of Louisiana takes. Estate of deceased belongs to the state Escher
Fourth class
895: ascendants, grandparents and great grandparents. If there are no heirs in the first second or third class the defendants other direct descendants (grandparents, great grand parents) succeed to the decedents seperate property
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Fifth class
896 remote collaterals. If there are heirs in the 1,2,3,4th class. The decedents other remote collaterals succeed to defendants seperate property.
Special
Nearest collateral takes all excluding more remote collaterals. If several collaterals in the same degree they take equally and by heads no rep.
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