DENNIS, Justice.
We are called upon to decide whether a law that purports to abrogate forced heirship's principle and right of equality of heirship among children is unconstitutional because it violates Article XII, § 5 of the 1974 Louisiana Constitution, which declares that "[n]o law shall abolish forced heirship." Civil Code article 1493, as amended in 1989 and 1990, purports to extinguish forced heirship for persons who upon the...
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