SUCCESSION OF WILLIAMS

No. CA 90 0340.

593 So.2d 658 (1991)

In the Matter of the SUCCESSION OF Janice Ann Parker WILLIAMS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

August 6, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Prentice Smith, Baker, for plaintiff-appellee Edgar Lee Williams.

Cheryl Duvieilh, Baton Rouge, for Dept. of Revenue and Taxation.

William Connick, Metairie, for defendant-appellant Abe Parker, Jr., Marjorie Parker Cain, et al.

Before COVINGTON, C.J., and LANIER and GONZALES, JJ.


COVINGTON, Chief Judge.

This appeal on the behalf of the father of the decedent, himself now deceased, questions the applicability of the change in the scheme of forced heirship effected by Acts 1981, No. 442—namely, the abolition of ascendants as a class of forced heirs—to the decedent's testament, which was executed in 1977. The trial judge held that it was the testator's intent to leave her father only his forced portion, which at the time of her...

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