Legal Opinion

In re Interdiction of Ronstrom

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided June 3, 1983No. C 0657PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

GARRISON, Judge.

A curator is under a strict fiduciary obligation to prudently manage the affairs of the interdict. Succession of Demarest, 418 So.2d 1368 (La.App. 4th Cir.1982). That case involved allegations of mismanagement on the part of the executor of a succession which are almost identical to the case at hand.

As in the present case the executor in Demarest using succession funds paid to have property guarded during a delay caused by his own actions. In Demarest this court noted that the expenditure of $20.00 a day to guard assets which eventually were sold for $60,000.00 “seems a bit…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Succession of DemarestLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1982

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Hebert v. WiseLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1995
  2. Haynes v. HaynesLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1989
  3. In re Interdiction of RonstromSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1983
  4. Interdiction of RonstromSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1983

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