Legal Opinion
Succession of Guillon
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided February 27, 1922No. 23154PublishedCited by 11 opinions
Appeal from Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson; John E. Fleury, Judge. Proceedings by the testamentary executor of Jeanne Marie Guillon, deceased wife of Frank E. Fagot, Jr., for the allowance of fiis final account, opposed by Frank E. Fagot, Jr. From a judgment in favor of opponent, the executor and universal legatee appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The final account of the testamentary executor is opposed by the husband of the decedent, who claims one-fourth of the succession by virtue of the following article of the Civil Code:
“Art. 2382. When the wife has not brought any dowry, or when what she brought as a dowry is inconsiderable with respect to the condition of the husband, if either the husband or the wife die rich, leaving the survivor in necessitous circumstances, the latter has a *589right to take out of the succession of the deceased what is called the marital portion; that is, the fourth of the succession in full property, if…
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