Succession of Vidrine

562 So.2d 52 (1990)

SUCCESSION OF Emile VIDRINE.

No. 89-7.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

May 23, 1990.

Clyde Fontenot, Ville Platte, for plaintiff/appellee.

Ted W. Hoyt and George J. Forest, Lafayette, for defendants/appellants.

Before DOMENGEAUX, C.J., and FORET and STOKER, JJ.

DOMENGEAUX, Chief Judge.

Emile Vidrine died testate on September 5, 1988. In a statutory will executed on August 2, 1988, Emile disinherited his son and forced heir, Ronald Frank Vidrine, whom he claimed "never made any attempt to see me, call me, write me, or otherwise communicate with me during his whole…