IN RE SUCCESSION OF BERNSTINE

No. 2004-739.

890 So.2d 776 (2004)

SUCCESSION OF Vera Kate BERNSTINE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

December 22, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin Dunahoe, Dunahoe Law Firm, Natchitoches, LA, for Appellee, Otis Johnson, III.

Alex J. Washington, Washington & Wells, Shreveport, LA, for Plaintiffs/Appellants, Burk Clark, Kirk Clark.

Phyllis Lewis, In Proper Person, Clinton, MD, pro se.

Carlos D. Prudhomme, English & Associates, Shreveport, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellant, Phyllis Lewis.

Court composed of BILLIE COLOMBARO WOODARD, MARC T. AMY, and BILLY HOWARD EZELL, Judges.


AMY, Judge.

Following the decedent's death, her only son was appointed administrator of her estate and submitted a document his mother had written to the court, but asserted that the document was not a valid testament. The decedent's three grandchildren, who were also the administrator's children and were named in the document, argued that the document should be probated as an olographic will. The trial court found that the document was not a valid testament, and...

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