Art. 3306.Notice of Filing of Tableau of Distribution; Effect of Failure to Serve

Once someone has properly requested notice under Article 3305, Article 3306 puts the obligation on the succession representative to follow through. The representative has to mail notice of the filing of a tableau of distribution to the attorney designated in that request, at the address given, and no court order is needed to do so. Proof that the notice was mailed is enough; the representative does not have to prove the attorney received it.

That relatively light burden on the representative comes paired with a real consequence for skipping it. If the required notice was never mailed, a judgment homologating the tableau of distribution has no effect against the person who requested it. Everyone else's rights under the homologated tableau stand, but the person who was supposed to be notified and was not keeps their position as if the homologation never touched them.

The pairing makes sense: Louisiana asks little of the representative, just a mailing and proof of it, but insists on real consequences if even that is skipped. A requesting party's protection does not depend on the representative's diligence alone; it survives even a representative's oversight.