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CC 58 - Succession rights of person presumed dead or declared dead
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Art. 58. Succession rights of person presumed dead or declared dead
A person who is presumed to be dead or who has been declared dead at a time a succession would have been opened in his favor cannot be a successor. The estate of the deceased devolves as if that person were dead at the time of the opening of the succession.
Acts 1990, No. 989, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1991.
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