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For property that did not have a beneficiary designation or was not in a living trust, there may be "simplified probate" procedures or "small estate affidavit" procedures in Louisiana for transferring certain kinds of property at death, which can avoid the cost and time of a full-blown court-supervised probate proceeding.
Louisiana, like most states, does not impose an estate or inheritance tax. Only a few states do.
Louisiana does not have its own minimum wage law. Therefore, employees in Louisiana are entitled to earn at least the federal minimum wage, $7.25 an hour.
In Louisiana, your employer may pay you a minimum wage of $2.13 an hour, as long as you earn enough in tips to bring your total hourly pay up to the full minimum wage, $7.25 an hour. If you don’t earn enough in tips to bring your compensation to the full minimum wage, your employer must make up the difference.
No. La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 13:3881(B)(1)
Property you occupy to $35,000 (if debt is result of catastrophic or terminal illness or injury, limit is full value of property as of 1 year before filing); cannot exceed 5 acres in city or town, 200 acres elsewhere (husband & wife may not double)
$7,500
$7,500 of equity in a motor vehicle modified for disability
In Louisiana, you can receive unemployment benefits for a maximum of 26 weeks under state law.