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.

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