Legal Opinion
Succession of Watkins
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided December 7, 2016No. 2016-CA-0356PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Roland L. Belsome
11 This appeal arises from an offset ordered against inheritance as a result of damage caused to succession property. The trial court found that the plaintiff had caused damage to immovable property belonging to the succession and ordered that the judgment be applied as a credit against any inheritance due to him in the succession proceeding. For the following reasons, we affirm.
STATEMENT OF FACT AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
The estate of Ms. Betty Jean Badie Watkins was opened in September 2009. Ms. Watkins’s four heirs were initially placed in possession of the estate;…
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- State v. FalgoutLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2016
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