Art. 3113.Inventory Taken Or Descriptive List Filed When Appointment Made

Because a provisional administrator's whole job is to protect succession property on short notice, the court needs a record of what that property is as soon as the appointment happens. Article 3113 requires exactly that: an order, made at the time of appointment, for a formal inventory or, in its place, a sworn descriptive list.

The article gives the court a choice between the two established methods described later in the chapter. An inventory under Article 3131 brings in a court-appointed notary and sworn appraisers to catalog and value the property; a descriptive list under Article 3136 lets the party who would request the inventory file a sworn list instead, without needing separate judicial authority to do so.

The requirement is not duplicative when one already exists. If an inventory or descriptive list was ordered before the provisional administrator was appointed, perhaps because an application for a regular administrator was already pending under Article 3094, the court does not need to order a second one.