IN RE SUCCESSION OF TABOR

No. 11-1245.

87 So.3d 982 (2012)

SUCCESSION OF Billy James TABOR.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 9, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald W. Morrison, Jr. , Livaccari Villarrubia Lemmon, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Appellee, Donna Beth Tabor Carter, Testamentary, Executrix for the Succession of Billy James Tabor.

Lee H. Ayres , Sarah E. Smith , Ayres, Warren, Shelton & Williams, L.L.C., Shreveport, LA, for Appellant, Martha Elliot Tabor.

Court composed of JIMMIE C. PETERS, ELIZABETH A. PICKETT, and JAMES T. GENOVESE, Judges.


PICKETT, J.

The dispute in this appeal is whether a certain mineral lease bonus should be classified as community property or the wife's separate property. Martha Elliott Tabor appeals the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the Succession of Billy James Tabor (her deceased husband's succession, hereafter referred to as "the Succession"), in which the trial court found that the bonus was community property. For the following reasons, we affirm as amended...

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