Legal Opinion · Dissent

Myers v. Myers

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided July 21, 1993No. 92-860Published

1DissentCooks, Judge

I respectfully disagree with the majority’s decision to affirm the judgment rescinding a community property partition agreement. The opinion recites “we cannot count items left out of the settlement in determining whether it was lesionary.” Apparently, the majority’s affirmance rests on the mistaken *213premise that an appellate court’s community “value review” is limited to the four corners of the “actual” partition document. My appreciation of the jurisprudence and applicable codal provisions would not place such restriction on our authority to determine the validity of a community partition…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Beatty v. ViningLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1962
  2. Bodin v. BodinLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1980
  3. Ozane v. OzaneLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1980
  4. Blount v. BlountLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1980
  5. Whittington v. WhittingtonLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1969

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