Louisiana § RS 9:133 - Inheritance rights
Full text of Louisiana Louisiana Civil Code § RS 9:133 — Inheritance rights, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ RS 9:133. Inheritance rights
Inheritance rights will not flow to the in vitro fertilized human embryo as a juridical person, unless the in vitro fertilized human embryo develops into an unborn child that is born in a live birth, or at any other time when rights attach to an unborn child in accordance with law. As a juridical person, the embryo or child born as a result of in vitro fertilization and in vitro fertilized human embryo donation to another person does not retain its inheritance rights from the in vitro fertilization patients or a donor of gametes used in the in vitro fertilization process, unless the donor is a person from whom the child could otherwise inherit under laws of succession notwithstanding the in vitro fertilization process.
Acts 1986, No. 964, §1; Acts 2016, No. 495, §2; Acts 2025, No. 116, §1.
Source: official Louisiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section RS 9:133 ("Inheritance rights") is part of the Louisiana Civil Code, the codified statutory law of Louisiana. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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