Limited Power of Attorney - Louisiana
LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY — LOUISIANA
Limited mandate
Before you use this: Fill in the transaction, each permitted act, property, amount limit, and end time before execution. This mandate is drafted as an authentic act: the principal and mandatary execute it before a notary and two witnesses. If an act needs a particular form, the mandate authorizing it must use that form too.
On [__/__/____] in [PARISH], Louisiana, before the undersigned notary public and two witnesses, personally appeared:
Principal: [PRINCIPAL FULL LEGAL NAME], domiciled at [ADDRESS].
Mandatary: [MANDATARY FULL LEGAL NAME], domiciled at [ADDRESS].
The principal appoints the mandatary, who accepts, to transact only the affair described below on the principal's behalf.
1. Specific affair and authority
Specific transaction and counterparty: [DESCRIBE]
Acts the mandatary may perform and documents the mandatary may sign: [LIST EACH ACT AND DOCUMENT]
Property, account, or asset involved: [IDENTIFY; FOR AN IMMOVABLE, ATTACH LEGAL DESCRIPTION]
Maximum payment, receipt, or commitment: $[AMOUNT / NONE]
Additional conditions: [DESCRIBE / NONE]
Only a completed item below expressly grants the corresponding authority for the identified affair and property:
☐ Alienate: [EXACT THING AND PERMITTED CONVEYANCE]
☐ Acquire: [EXACT THING AND PERMITTED ACQUISITION]
☐ Encumber: [EXACT THING AND PERMITTED SECURITY]
☐ Lease: [EXACT THING AND LEASE TERMS]
An unchecked or blank item grants no authority. The mandatary may communicate with the identified counterparty and obtain records only as reasonably needed to perform the listed acts. This mandate grants no general authority over the principal's other affairs.
2. Powers withheld
The mandatary may not make an inter vivos donation; accept or renounce a succession; contract a loan, acknowledge or remit a debt, or become a surety; draw or endorse a promissory note or other negotiable instrument; compromise a claim or submit it to arbitration; make health-care decisions; prevent or limit the principal's communication or visitation; create or change a trust or beneficiary designation; delegate discretionary authority; contract with the mandatary as the other party; or make or change a testament. None of the special acts in Civil Code article 2997 is granted.
3. Effective period and termination
This mandate takes effect when executed and accepted. It ends when the identified transaction is completed and, in all events, no later than [DATE AND TIME, INCLUDING TIME ZONE]. The principal may terminate it sooner. The principal's incapacity or disability alone does not terminate it, but the death of either party, interdiction of the mandatary, or qualification of a curator after the principal's interdiction ends it under Civil Code article 3024.
This mandate does not terminate or amend any prior mandate unless identified here: [PRIOR MANDATE / NONE].
4. Mandatary's undertaking
The mandatary accepts this limited mandate, will act only within its stated terms and the principal's instructions, and will keep a record of money and property received, paid, or transferred under it.
5. Execution as an authentic act
The principal and mandatary sign this act before the notary public and the two witnesses named below. Each printed name is placed immediately beneath that person's signature.
Principal's signature: ____________________________________
Printed name: [PRINCIPAL FULL LEGAL NAME]
Mandatary's signature: ____________________________________
Printed name: [MANDATARY FULL LEGAL NAME]
Witness 1 signature: ____________________________________
Printed name: [WITNESS 1 FULL NAME]
Witness 2 signature: ____________________________________
Printed name: [WITNESS 2 FULL NAME]
Notary public signature: ____________________________________
Printed name and commission details: [NOTARY NAME AND DETAILS]
Notarial seal: [SEAL]
6. Immovable-recording instruction
If the permitted act affects an immovable, coordinate the mandate and the resulting instrument with the appropriate parish mortgage or conveyance records. Civil Code article 3338 requires registration of listed immovable instruments for effect as to third persons. If this mandate is recorded, a later revocation or modification must be filed for recordation to affect persons entitled to rely on the public records under article 3027.
About this template
- Last updated
- October 4, 2026
- Citations checked
- October 4, 2026
- Jurisdiction
- Louisiana
- Category
- Estate Planning & Wills
Legal authority
- La. Civ. Code art. 1833 (authentic act)
- La. Civ. Code art. 2989 (mandate)
- La. Civ. Code art. 2993 (form)
- La. Civ. Code art. 2996 (express authority for alienation, acquisition, encumbrance, or lease)
- La. Civ. Code art. 2997 (other express-authority matters)
- La. Civ. Code art. 3024 (termination events)
- La. Civ. Code art. 3025 (termination by principal)
- La. Civ. Code art. 3026 (incapacity)
- La. Civ. Code art. 3027 (recorded revocation or modification)
- La. Civ. Code art. 3338 (recordation of immovable instruments)
Estate planning documents decide what happens to your property, your children, and your medical care when you cannot make those decisions yourself. Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and health care directives each serve different purposes and each have to meet state law requirements for signing, witnessing, and notarization. A document that looks fine on the page but was not executed correctly can be rejected in probate, which is exactly when it is too late to fix.
Not legal advice
This template is provided for informational purposes. We recommend having an attorney review any legal document before signing, especially for high-value or complex matters.
Checked against the law it cites
A reviewer verified this template's legal citations against the official source on October 4, 2026.
La. Civ. Code art. 1833(A) (checked October 4, 2026): "An authentic act is a writing executed before a notary public or other officer authorized to perform that function, in the presence of two witnesses, and signed by each party who executed it, by each witness, and by each notary public before whom it was executed."
La. Civ. Code art. 2989 (checked October 4, 2026): "A mandate is a contract by which a person, the principal, confers authority on another person, the mandatary, to transact one or more affairs for the principal."
La. Civ. Code art. 2993 (checked October 4, 2026): "The contract of mandate is not required to be in any particular form. Nevertheless, when the law prescribes a certain form for an act, a mandate authorizing the act must be in that form."
La. Civ. Code art. 2996 (checked October 4, 2026): "The authority to alienate, acquire, encumber, or lease a thing must be given expressly. Neither the property nor its location need be specifically described."
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