2.6 How to Open a Succession

Procedurally, most successions are handled by the filing of an ex parte Petition for Possession with the district court of the parish where the deceased was domiciled at death.1  However, if the gross value of the estate at the decedent’s death is less than $125,000 and there is no testament, the succession can be completed by recording an Affidavit for Small Succession in the conveyance records in the parish where the immovable property is located rather than by filing a judicial succession in district court.2

• 1La. C.C.P. art. 2811.
• 2See La. C.C.P. arts. 3431–3434.