Your state's pack. New issue every Monday. Bookmark it. I built this for the Louisiana T&E solo who knows the Civil Code, forced heirship, and usufruct cold but still loses an afternoon a week tracking the moving Louisiana Medicaid pieces.
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Three developments I think actually matter to a Louisiana T&E solo. Each has a read that lands on your practice specifically — and each comes with a reachable citation so you can verify it yourself before you use it with a client. Louisiana is the lone civil-law jurisdiction — the common-law “TOD deed / living trust” reflexes do not map cleanly here.
LDH recovery (La. R.S. 46:153.4; LAC Title 50, Pt. I, Subpart 9) reaches assets passing through succession; the claim is a privilege on the succession ranking with expenses of last illness (C.C. art. 3252 et seq.).
There is no TOD deed in Louisiana. Planning runs through donations, usufruct, and entity/succession structuring — not common-law beneficiary deeds or revocable living trusts as used elsewhere.
La. R.S. 46:153.4 · law.justia.com; LDH State Plan Att. 4.17 (ldh.la.gov)
Forced heirs are children under 24 or permanently incapacitated (La. Const. art. XII, § 5; C.C. art. 1493); the surviving spouse takes a usufruct over the decedent’s community share, with children as naked owners (C.C. art. 890).
A Medicaid plan that ignores the legitime or the usufruct can be partially void. The usufruct itself is a recoverable interest only to the extent it falls in the succession — map it carefully.
La. C.C. arts. 1493, 890; La. Const. art. XII § 5 · legis.la.gov
Maximum CSRA is $162,660 (minimum $32,532); the special income standard is $2,982/mo; Louisiana applies the federal $752,000 home-equity floor. UnitedHealthcare exited Louisiana Medicaid effective Dec. 31, 2025, leaving five MCOs.
Community-spouse math and the income cap matter as everywhere; on top, confirm the client’s current Healthy Louisiana plan since UHC departed. Flag the 2028 OBBBA $1,000,000 home-equity cap now.
42 U.S.C. § 1396p · CMS 2026 Standards (medicaid.gov); LDH Healthy Louisiana
This week in Louisiana for the T&E solo with Medicaid-planning clients: what the Louisiana State Bar Association, the parish courts and succession practice, and LDH put in front of you.
The LSBA CLE calendar, the Trusts, Estate, Probate & Immovable Property Section, and the LDH bulletins all publish on different schedules. This is that sift, already done, with the link on each item.