La. Civ. Code art. 1295
Current with changes from the 2024 legislative session effective on or before 7/1/2024, from Acts 2,3, 6-535, and 580-647
Every partition is either definitive or provisional:
Definitive partition is that which is made in a permanent and irrevocable manner;
Provisional partition is that which is made provisionally, either of certain things before the rest can be divided, or even of everything that is to be divided, when the parties are not in a situation to make an irrevocable partition.
La. C.C. § 1295