BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Ascension Parish Assessor Mert Smiley and Livingston Parish Assessor Jeff Taylor, announced a new online homestead exemption form. The joint effort between the two parishes ...

A Declaration of Homestead is a simple legal document which can help to protect your house and property in times of economic hardship. A Declaration of Homestead is a simple legal document which can ...

A homestead exemption is a legal mandate. It helps protect a home from seizure by creditors following a declaration of bankruptcy or the death of a spouse with ownership interest. In many states, the ...

For example, if your home is valued at $200,000 and the exemption is $40,000, then you would pay taxes on $160,000 of its value. By the way, the value of your home for taxing purposes is the value of ...