Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:133 – Inheritance rights
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:133
- Donor: The person who makes a gift.
- person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
Inheritance rights will not flow to the in vitro fertilized ovum as a juridical person, unless the in vitro fertilized ovum 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 ovum donation to another couple 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.