In re Succession of Sims

|aThe appellant, Lionel Sims, Sr., seeks review of a judgment adjudicating the ownership of certain property and denying his motion and rule for an accounting. For the following reasons, we affirm in part, vacate in part, and remand for further proceedings.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

In the mid-1970s, the decedents, Rev. Alvin Sims, Sr., and his wife, Rev. Roselee Pooler Sims, founded Faith Baptist Spiritual Church in their home in Zachary, Louisiana. The Simses later acquired a tract of immovable property in Zachary and constructed a church building on that tract of land (“the church…