IN RE SUCCESSION OF ABDALLA

No. 99-0979.

764 So.2d 362 (2000)

SUCCESSION OF Jacob ABDALLA.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

June 28, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stan Gauthier, II, Mary Shirer Romagosa, Attorneys at Law, Lafayette, LA, Counsel for Plaintiff/Appellant-Charisse I. Kaplan.

Lawrence B. Sandoz, III, Sandoz & Sandoz, Opelousas, LA, Counsel for Defendants/Appellees-Ronald M. Boudreaux, John L. McKnight and Lawrence B. Sandoz, Jr.

James C. Lopez, Guglielmo, Lopez, Tuttle, Hunter & Jarrell, L.L.P., Opelousas, LA, Counsel for Defendants/Appellees-Broussard, Poche, Lewis & Breaux.

(Court composed of SYLVIA R. COOKS, JOHN D. SAUNDERS, BILLIE C. WOODARD, JIMMIE C. PETERS, and ELIZABETH A. PICKETT, Judges).


PETERS, Judge.

In this succession dispute, we must determine the proper executor fee and attorney fees owed, under law, by a succession, when a joint executor renounces his share of the executor fee and serves as attorney to the succession.

Jacob Abdalla (Abdalla) died testate in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, on March 30, 1995. He was survived by his wife, Mary Tujague Abdalla; two children, Beverly Abdalla Johnson and Mary Ann Abdalla; and one...

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