ENROLLED
ACT No. 16
2023 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 194
BY REPRESENTATIVES THOMPSON, BOYD, GAROFALO, HODGES, JEFFERSON,
AND MIKE JOHNSON
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact Children's Code Article 1264, relative to grandparent visitation; to
3 provide for post-adoption visitation rights of grandparents; and to provide for related
4 matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. Children's Code Article 1264 is hereby amended and reenacted to read
7 as follows:
8 Art. 1264. Post-adoption visitation rights of grandparents
9 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the natural parents of
10 a deceased party to a marriage dissolved by death parent whose child is thereafter
11 adopted, and the parents of a party who has forfeited the right to object to the
12 adoption of his child pursuant to Article 1245 may have limited visitation rights to
13 the minor child so adopted.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
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