Poynot v. Pfister

BEER, Judge.

Mrs. Edna LaCroix Poynot, the then 81-year-old widow of Walter F. Poynot (who had died on August 12, 1974, leaving his entire estate to Mrs. Poynot), allegedly executed an authentic Act of Adoption of Gerald G. Pfister on August 28, 1974, before a notary public in Jefferson Parish, Louisi*99ana. On September 4, 1974, a petition for interdiction of Mrs. Poynot was filed. As a result, Oscar Poynot was appointed provisional curator.

The Act of Adoption was, thereafter, recorded in Orleans Parish on December 13, 1974, and in Jefferson Parish on July 8, 1975. Thereafter, on June 26, 1975,…