Succession of Gilbert

LEMMON, Justice.*

This is an action by two forced heirs, who are the decedent’s daughters of his first marriage, against the decedent’s surviving spouse for reduction of the decedent’s mortis causa and inter vivos donations to the surviving spouse in excess of the disposable portion. The principal issue is whether the decedent’s two sets of inter vivos donations to his daughters, each set made in equal amounts in the same calendar year, must be added back fictitiously into La.Civ.Code art. 1505’s compilation of the mass estate for the purpose of calculating the legitime, or whether the…