Bullock v. Edwards

ALVIN B. RUBIN, District Judge.

The plaintiff, a married woman, seeks to attack the constitutionality of the part of the Louisiana community property system that, as interpreted by the Louisiana Supreme Court, makes the entire community liable for the male spouse’s antenuptial debts but, at the time suit was instituted, protected the community property from liability for the female spouse’s separate debts 1 2so long as the community existed. The plaintiff and her husband, Jacques Bezou, were married on June 1, 1974. At the time, Mr. Bezou owed a debt for income tax to the federal government.…