Art. 4555.Appeal

A party unhappy with an interdiction judgment, with an order appointing or removing a curator or undercurator, or with a judgment modifying or terminating interdiction has thirty days to appeal it, measured from the applicable date Article 2087 sets for civil appeals generally.

Filing that appeal does not put the underlying order or judgment on hold. Article 4555 makes clear it is not suspended during the appeal's pendency, so the curator keeps functioning and whatever protections the judgment established stay in force while the appellate court reviews the case. That avoids leaving the interdict unprotected, or the interdict's affairs unmanaged, for however long the appeal takes.

Article 4555 also protects transactions that already happened. Even if an appellate court eventually annuls a curator's or undercurator's appointment, the acts that curator or undercurator already took under that appointment remain valid. Third parties who dealt with the curator in good faith, and the interdict whose affairs the curator managed, are not left to unwind completed transactions because an appellate court later found a defect in how the curator came to be appointed.