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CRAIN v. CRAIN

No. 98 CA 1583.

754 So.2d 261 (1999)

Yancy Brent CRAIN, In His Capacity as the Tutor of the Minor Children, Brittany Shantelle Spears, Ashley Amanda Spears and Megan Brianna Crain v. Shanda Spears CRAIN and the Estate of George Lander Spears, Sr. and Bobbie Jean Toney Spears, Through George Lander Spears, Jr. Administrator and George Lander Spears, Jr. Individually and Landon Scott Spears

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

September 24, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Watts, Franklinton, Counsel for Plaintiff/Appellant, Yancy Brent Crain.

Earl Reynolds, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Defendants/Appellees, Shanda Crain, et al.

Before: CARTER, LeBLANC and PETTIGREW, JJ.

LeBLANC, J.

The issue in this appeal is whether the three minor children of Shanda Spears Crain have the legal right to succeed to the estates of their grandparents (Shanda's parents), in light of the fact that Shanda was convicted of murdering her parents and can thereby be declared unworthy as an heir, and also in light of renunciations allegedly executed by Shanda, which, if valid, left her two brothers as the remaining heirs in the first degree with respect to...

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