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IN RE SUCCESSION OF BOYTER

No. 99-C-0761.

756 So.2d 1122 (2000)

SUCCESSION OF Joseph Page BOYTER.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied February 18, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Patrick Bodenheimer, Bodenheimer, Jones & Szwak, Shreveport, Counsel for Applicant.

David Andrew Barlow, Kay Cowden Medlin, Barlow & Hardtner, Shreveport, Counsel for Respondent.

David Andrew Barlow, Kay Cowden Medlin, Shreveport, Counsel for Robert Scott Sorensen, Mary Ann DiFilippo Naylor, Cecille Thompson, Noel Taylor Sorensen, Steven Mark Sorensen, Amicus Curiae.

Alton E. Bayard, III, Baton Rouge, Gordon Neal Blackman, Jr., Pike Hall, Jr., J. Edgerton Pierson, Jr., Shreveport, Amy Michelle Perkins, Counsel for Juliet Amelia Williamson, Elisabeth Lloyd Anthony, Barry Ashton R. Naylor, Amicus Curiae.

KIMBALL, Justice.*

We granted certiorari to determine the proper interpretation and application of La. R.S. 9:2501 (1996). After examining the clear language of the statute, the legislature's purpose in enacting the statute, and the policies underlying successions law, we hold that La. R.S. 9:2501 is a mandatory statute that applies to all successions in which a person executed a will before January 1, 1996 and died after December 31,...

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