Louisiana Civil Code Tit. I, Art. 1290. Extent and application of rules; venue of action

All the rules, established in the present chapter, with the exception of that which relates to the collations, are applicable to partitions between coproprietors of the same thing when among the coproprietors any are absent, minors, or interdicted, or when the coproprietors of age and present can not agree on the partition and on the manner of making it.

But in these kinds of partitions the action must be brought before the judge of the place where the property to be divided is situated, wherever the parties interested may be domiciliated.