Sharp v. Sharp

| Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure article 561(A)(1), setting forth the general rule of abandonment, provides that an action is abandoned when the parties fail to take any step in its prosecution or defense in the trial court for a period of five years.1 According to the applicable version of La. C.C. art. 102, a divorce shall be granted upon a motion of a spouse when either spouse has filed a petition for divorce and upon proof that one hundred eighty days have elapsed from the service of the petition, or from the execution of a written waiver of the service, and that the spouses have lived…