Succession of Love

CARTER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a trial court judgment maintaining an exception raising the objection of prescription in a succession proceeding.

FACTS

Paul Louis Love died on January 4, 1986. At his death, decedent was survived by his wife, Helen Manning Feierabend Love, Dennis R. Aucoin and Karla Denise Aucoin West, stepchildren from a previous marriage to whom the decedent had made donations, defendants herein.

On August 28, 1986, plaintiff, Tawana Louis Love, filed a petition alleging that she is the illegitimate daughter of Paul Louis Love and that, as a child of the decedent, she is…