In Re Succession of Catching

| ,The appellant, First United Methodist Church of Monroe (“Church”), appeals the judgment below wherein the trial court held that the Succession of James Roy-Catching was not required to satisfy any legacies in the will, including a legacy consisting of a $100,000 Certificate of Deposit to the Church, because the value of the succession was less than the value of the usufructuary debt the decedent owed to his son, the naked owner, who is the executor of his father’s will. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTS

The story begins with the death of the mother, Virgie Hicks Catching, on…