4.3.2 Revoking an Entire Testament

Revocation of an entire testament occurs when the testator does any of the following:

• Physically destroys the testament, or has it destroyed at his direction.
• Declares a revocation in one of the forms prescribed for testaments or in an authentic act. 
• Identifies and clearly revokes the testament by a writing that is entirely written and signed by the testator in the testator’s own handwriting.
• Destroys one of multiple wills.1
• Destroy or revokes a second will; if the first will was not destroyed, it is revived.2

• 1Succession of Talbot, 530 So. 2d 1132 (La. 1988).
• 2La. C.C. art. 1607.