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SUCCESSION OF CALDAS

No. 7084.

323 So.2d 890 (1975)

Succession of Antonina Z. CALDAS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 13, 1976.

Writ Refused March 5, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Midlo & Lehmann, Rene Lehmann, New Orleans, for Mrs. Lorraine D. Martinez, Testamentary Executrix of the Succession of Antonina Z. Caldas, appellant.

Ungar, Dulitz, Jacobs & Manuel, Joseph E. Windmeyer, New Orleans, for John Joseph Caldas, Jr., intervenor-appellee.

Before STOULIG, SCHOTT and MORIAL, JJ.

STOULIG, Judge.

The issue before us is the validity of a notarial act of adoption between two majors executed in conformity with R.S. 9:-461, where the adoptee appeared through an agent.

Appellant, the executrix of the estate of Antonina Z. Caldas, resists payment of a legitime to John Joseph Caldas, Jr. (hereinafter referred to as Caldas, Jr.), as a forced heir of decedent because she contends his adoption was a...

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