Succession of Matthews

[«¡This is an appeal of a judgment sustaining an exception of peremption and dismissing the inheritance claims of alleged descendants claiming to be heirs of the decedent’s children who were born outside of marriage. We affirm.

FACTS

George Matthews died in 1930. More than seventy years later, alleged descendants came forward and filed pleadings into his succession proceedings seeking recognition as heirs of George Matthews. The alleged descendants generally contend that George Matthews fathered sixteen children born outside of marriage and that they descend from those children.

The…