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.