SECTION 3.  OF THE COMPETENCE OF WITNESSES AND OF CERTAIN DESIGNATIONS IN TESTAMENTS

Art. 1581.  Persons incompetent to be witnesses

A person cannot be a witness to any testament if he is insane, blind, under the age of sixteen, or unable to sign his name.  A person who is competent but deaf or  unable to read cannot be a witness to a notarial testament under Article 1579.

Acts 1997, No. 1421, §1, eff. July 1, 1999.