The court shall appoint an attorney at law to represent the unrepresented defendant in an executory proceeding under the following circumstances: (1) When the defendant is an absentee; (2) When the debtor is dead, no succession representative has been appointed, and his heirs and legatees have not been sent into possession; (3) When the debtor's property is under the administration of a legal representative, but the latter has died, resigned, or been removed from office, and no successor thereof has qualified; (4) When the defendant is a corporation or a partnership upon which process cannot be served for any reason; and (5) When the defendant is a minor, or a mental incompetent, who has no legal representative at the time of the institution of the proceeding.
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