In Re Succession of Smith

THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge.

|,Appellant, Clayton Donnell Barnhill, an alleged biological child of the deceased, Donald Clay Smith, claims that the trial court erred by sustaining Winnie Moore Smith and Angela Smith Appleby’s exception of prescription. Barnhill maintains that the trial court erroneously interpreted the 2005 Civil Code amendment that gov erns filiation actions. 1 Reasoning that the amendment did not apply retroactively so as to revive expired and extinguished filiation claims, the trial court dismissed with prejudice Barnhill’s petition to amend the judgment of possession in favor…