Legal Opinion
In Re Succession of Carlton
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided April 7, 2010No. CA 09-1339PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GREMILLION, Judge.
liThe appellants, Melba Stuckey Philips and Ellen Faye Wise (the Aunts), appeal the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Monica Player, finding her brother, Donnie DeWayne Carlton’s, testament a nullity. For the following reasons, we affirm.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Donnie DeWayne Carlton was killed in a car accident in September 2008, leaving behind a one-page notarial testament dated June 14, 2008. In July 2009, Philips and Wise, Carlton’s aunts, filed a Petition for Probate of Notarial Testament and Petition for Possession. A judgment of Possession…
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- Succession of MorganSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1970
- Succession of GuezuragaSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1987
- In Re Succession of RichardsonLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2006
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