Art. 2674.  Attorney appointed to represent unrepresented defendant

The court shall appoint an attorney at law to represent the unrepresented defendant in an executory proceeding under the following circumstances:

(1)  When the defendant is an absentee;

(2)  When the debtor is dead, no succession representative has been appointed, and his heirs and legatees have not been sent into possession;

(3)  When the debtor's property is under the administration of a legal representative, but the latter has died, resigned, or been removed from office, and no successor thereof has qualified;

(4)  When the defendant is a corporation or a partnership upon which process cannot be served for any reason; and

(5)  When the defendant is a minor, or a mental incompetent, who has no legal representative at the time of the institution of the proceeding.