Terms Used In Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure 4603

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.

A person desiring a judicial partition of property shall petition for it in a court of competent jurisdiction.  The partition proceeding shall be brought in the venue provided by Article 80(2) if the property sought to be partitioned is immovables, or both movables and immovables; or in the parish where some of the property is situated, if it consists only of movables.

Except as otherwise provided by law, a partition proceeding is subject to the rules regulating ordinary proceedings.

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