Succession of Abdalla

| JETERS, Judge.

In this succession dispute, we must determine the proper executor fee and attorney fees owed, under law, by a succession, when a joint executor renounces his share of the executor fee and serves as attorney to the succession.

Jacob Abdalla (Abdalla) died testate in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, on March 30, 1995. He was survived by his wife, Mary Tujague Abdalla; two children, Beverly Abdalla Johnson and Mary Ann Abdalla; and one granddaughter, Charrisse Ingrid Kaplan (Ms. Kaplan). Under the terms of Abdalla’s last will and testament, his estate was to remain either…