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IN RE SUCCESSION OF COLLETT

No. 09-70.

11 So.3d 724 (2009)

SUCCESSION OF GEORGE COLLETT.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

June 3, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Daniel Dyess, Dyess Law Firm, LLC, Many, LA, for Other Appellants-Naomi Ruth Collett Ebarb and Mary Lou Collett Dayhuff.

Charles David Soileau, Many, LA, for Other Appellee-Marjorie L. Collett.

Court composed of ULYSSES GENE THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge, JOHN D. SAUNDERS, and JIMMIE C. PETERS, Judges.

THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge.

Appellants, Mary Lou Collett Dayhuff and Naomi Ruth Collett Ebarb, claim that the trial court erred in its interpretation of their father's testament, thereby depriving Dayhuff and Ebarb of their portion of his estate. The testament, which pre-dated the abolition of forced heirship, left the forced portion of his estate to his children. Reasoning that the law in effect at the time of George Collett's death governed the succession rights of...

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