In Re Succession of Collett

THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge.

| Appellants, Mary Lou Collett Dayhuff and Naomi Ruth Collett Ebarb, claim that the trial court erred in its interpretation of their father’s testament, thereby depriving Dayhuff and Ebarb of their portion of his estate. The testament, which pre-dated the abolition of forced heirship, left the forced portion of his estate to his children. Reasoning that the law in effect at the time of George Collett’s death governed the succession rights of the parties, the trial court determined that one hundred percent of George Collett’s estate belonged to Dayhuff and Ebarb’s…