Art. 3392.Effect of Judgment of Discharge

Article 3392 is short, but its effect runs through the rest of Chapter 12. Once the judgment of discharge described in Article 3391 is rendered, the succession representative stops being a succession representative in every functional sense: no more authority to act for the estate, and no more ongoing duty or responsibility tied to that role.

The practical stakes are real. A discharged representative can no longer sign for the succession, sell its property, collect what is owed to it, or take any other action that depended on the appointment. Anyone who dealt with the estate through that representative needed to have resolved their claims or objections before discharge, because the authority that made those dealings possible ends with the judgment.

Discharge is not, however, an unconditional and permanent close to every question the succession might still raise. Article 3393, immediately following, allows a succession to be reopened after discharge if newly discovered property or other proper cause justifies it, which shows that discharge ends the representative's role without foreclosing every future need to revisit the succession.