Art. 5094. Duties; notice to nonresident or absentee
A. When an attorney at law is appointed by the court to represent a defendant
who is a nonresident or an absentee, the attorney shall use reasonable diligence to
communicate with the defendant and inform him of the pendency and nature of the
action or proceeding, and of the time available for the filing of an answer or the
assertion of a defense otherwise.
B. For purposes of this Article, an attorney is deemed to have acted with
reasonable diligence when the attorney sends an absentee a letter by certified mail or
commercial courier to the last known address of the absentee in an effort to locate the
absentee and notify him of the appointment of the attorney to represent the absentee
defendant.
Acts 2024, No. 183, §2.