Legal Opinion
Succession of Gunter
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided March 1, 2006No. CA 2005-1122PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
EZELL, Judge.
This appeal presents the issue of the right of parties to demand annulment of a judgment of possession rendered in a succession proceeding when they are neither heirs nor creditors. For the following reasons, we affirm.
FACTS
Estelle Wiggins Gunter a/k/a Estelle Wiggins Gunter Ryder (hereinafter referred to as Ms. Ryder) filed a petition to probate a statutory will and for possession on August 4, 2004. Her husband Robert Gunter died on January 24, 1958, but no succession had been opened until the filing of this petition. A judgment of possession was signed on August 4, 2004.
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- Succession of MoranLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1986
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