This category covers the options and responsibilities of people who must deal with another's death, and how property is divided up, wills are carried through, or other decisions are made about the person's property and responsibilities. This includes possibly contesting a will or division of property, and what happens when a person dies without a will.
Calculating Estate Value And How To Create A Descriptive List
This resource covers the process of calculating the value of an estate and creating a descriptive list of all assets in the estate. This information can be used as part of the documents needed to file a succession.
Debts And Successions
This resource is about when a person dies, how creditors can hold the estate responsible for paying outstanding debts. Creditors may be able to collect payment for outstanding debts of beneficiaries from the distributions they get or from the executor/administrator for the estate.
Dividing Property Among Co-Owners: Partition Processes in Louisiana
This resource explains partition processes. They are ways to divide property among co-owners who no longer want to share it. This includes a house, land, or anything else. Louisiana law has two types of partition: Partition in Kind and Partition by Citation.
Dying Without A Will - Intestate Successions
This resource covers the law of intestacy or what happens to a person's estate when they die without a will.
Estate Planning For A Beneficiary With A Disability
This resource shows how to protect inheritance and benefits for a person with a disability. It covers tools like Special Needs Trusts, ABLE accounts, interdiction, and continuing tutorship. It also includes key estate planning documents. The guide stresses careful planning to keep eligibility for Medicaid and SSI. This ensures long-term care and support.
Estates, Wills, and Guardianships
This resource provides an overview of estate planning and administration in Louisiana, covering key topics such as wills, advance directives, guardianship and conservatorship, trusts, and powers of attorney (POA). It also offers guidance on navigating the succession process, including making or modifying a will, establishing directives, and managing trusts or POAs.
Heirship In Successions
If a person dies without a will, i.e. intestate, then the estate gets distributed according to Louisiana law. How property gets divided intestate is based on the classification of the property. Then the order of succession determines how the property gets left to relatives. This resource goes over the laws that relate to how property gets divided intestate. It includes what the order of succession might be if a person dies without a will.
Homestead Exemption For Property Taxes In Louisiana
This provides information on the Homestead Exemption for property taxes in Louisiana.
Inheritance And Estate Transfer Taxes In Successions
This resource covers how estate and inheritance taxes affect a decedent's estate. This covers how estate and/or inheritance taxes might get calculated and paid out of the estate. It also covers what deductions and benefits might reduce the taxes owed.
Inheriting An Interest In A Lease
This guide discusses the basic rights and responsibilities of people who inherit an interest in a lease. It includes information for both people who inherit an interest as a renter and a landlord.
Navigating A Louisiana General Property Succession
This resource discusses how a person's assets and property are handled and distributed after their death, specifically in cases where the estate is valued at $125,000 or more, a situation referred to as a general property succession. It outlines how the belongings are passed down to heirs or beneficiaries.
Navigating Louisiana's Small Succession Affidavit
This resource goes over Louisiana's Small Succession Affidavit process, which can be used to handle and distribute the assets of a decedent. The decedent must have died without a will. The estate must also be of value of $125,000 or less. The legal process allows an heir to bypass probate, which involves going to court. It allows the transfer of estate property and assets by a less complicated procedure.
Public Benefits And Effects On Inheritances In Successions
Many individuals who live with a disability or receive help from governmental programs. This may include Medicaid and Supplemental Social Security Income (SSI). This goes over information about inheritances that a beneficiary might get as a large sum. This resource goes over access to governmental programs the beneficiary received after an inheritance.
Successions
This resource helps you understand topics like successions and wills, what happens to someone's things after they die, and other issues about estates. It gives information on how to manage the transfer of belongings or assets after a person's death. Use this to learn how to deal with these issues easily and effectively.
Successions Dictionary
A plain-language guide to legal terms, definitions, and processes used in understanding successions in Louisiana. This includes legal issues around wills, powers of attorney, advance directives, trusts, guardianships, conservatorships, and other estate/succession issues families deal with. Click on each term to see a summary of the definition. Find links to greater in-depth information explaining more complicated issues in successions.
Understanding Property Under Louisiana Law
This resource covers information about types of property under Louisiana law. It includes information about what a property owner might own under each type.
Veterans And Military
This resource provides information on the various issues related to veterans and military including housing issues, consumer issues, public benefits, jobs and employment, and estate planning.