Culbert v. Succession of Culbert

JONES, Judge.

Sharon Renee Culbert, substituted plaintiff, appeals from a judgment rejecting her demands to be recognized as the legitimated child of Edward L. Culbert, now deceased, and as such his sole heir. Plaintiff seeks to declare null the “Judgment of Possession” rendered in the succession of her alleged father which recognized his mother, Augusta Culbert, as her father’s sole heir and owner of his property.

In finding plaintiff failed to prove acknowledgment by her father and therefore her legitimacy under C.C.Art. 198, the trial court relied upon two judicial proceedings in which…