Types of Cases NOT handled in JP Courts

1. Title to property that can't be moved (like a house)

2. The right to public office or position

3. A civil rights violation

4. A claim for the annulment of marriage, separation from bed and board, divorce, separation of property, or alimony

5. Any succession, interdiction, receivership, liquidation, habeas corpus, or quo warrantor cases

6. If the state, parish, municipal, or other political corporation is a defendant

7. An executory proceeding

8. Adoption, tutorship, emancipation or partition

9. Any in rem or quasi in rem proceedings (lawsuits against property, not against people)