Terms Used In Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure 4555

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.

An appeal from a judgment of interdiction, an order or judgment appointing or removing a curator or undercurator, or a judgment modifying or terminating interdiction shall be taken within thirty days from the applicable date provided by Article 2087.  The order or judgment is not suspended during the pendency of an appeal. The acts of a curator or an undercurator shall not be invalidated by the annulment of his appointment on appeal.

Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 25, §3, eff. July 1, 2001.