Succession of Woolfolk

LE BLANC, Justice.

On this appeal we are concerned with a rule taken by James L. Cooper in the succession proceedings of his deceased wife, Amelie Jane Woolfolk, from whom he had been legally and judicially separated.

These parties were married on June 30, 1951. Just four days before, they had entered into a prenuptial contract executed before a Notary Public evidencing their intention to specifically renounce the dispositions of the law of Louisiana relative to the community of acquets and gains between spouses and to remain separate in property. In the agreement it is stipulated that:

“All…