Cookmeyer v. Cookmeyer

REDMANN, Judge.

An ex-husband appeals from a judgment on his ex-wife’s “rule to distribute proceeds of sales” of community and separate property. The rule called for and the judgment performed a partial accounting and ordered distribution of funds from a savings and loan account.

La.C.C.P. 4605 requires the appointing of a notary public “to make the partition in accordance with law.”

Until such time as the notary’s work is completed and his proces verbal homologat-ed the ex-spouses are not entitled to any distribution of funds unless by consent of both.

The judgment appealed from is annulled and…