La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 3171
Current with operative changes from the 2024 Third Special Legislative Session
If it appears from the record, or is otherwise proved by an interested party, that an heir of an intestate, or a legatee or presumptive legal heir of a deceased testator, is an absentee, and there is a necessity for such appointment, the court shall appoint an attorney at law to represent the absent heir or legatee.
La. C.P. § 3171