SUCCESSION OF AUSTIN

No. 88-CA-21.

527 So.2d 483 (1988)

SUCCESSION OF Bob Perry AUSTIN.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

June 7, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard, Cassisa, Saporito & Elliott, Albert C. Miranda, Howard B. Kaplan, Metairie, for defendant/appellee.

Favret, Favret, Demarest & Russo, John Y. Kennedy, New Orleans, for defendant/appellant.

Joel A. Levy, Marrero, for plaintiff/appellant.

Before KLIEBERT, WICKER and GOTHARD, JJ.


WICKER, Judge.

A will which was valid under Mississippi law was admitted to probate in Louisiana, and the trial judge reduced the bequest which impinged upon the legitime of the decedent's children. The children appeal the order of probate, and we reverse and render.

Bob Perry Austin, a Louisiana domiciliary at the time of his death, executed an undated will in Pike County, Mississippi, which did not make provision for later-born children. This will was valid...

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