Legal Opinion

Succession of Villarrubia

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided September 5, 1996No. 95-C-2610PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

680 So.2d 1147 (1996)

In re SUCCESSION OF Stella Lescale VILLARRUBIA,

No. 95-C-2610.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

September 5, 1996.

Rehearing Denied October 11, 1996.

Max Nathan, Jr., Raymond P. Ward, Sessions & Fishman, New Orleans, for Applicant.

Thomas J. Corrington, Metairie, for Respondent.

VICTORY, Justice.[*]

We granted certiorari to consider whether a party who consented in an authentic act to a judgment of possession, based on the forced heirship law as it existed at the time, can thereafter seek to reopen the succession to assert his forced heirship rights, following this Court's decision in…

Also in this document: Dissent.

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Brown v. Drillers, Inc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1994
  2. Breaux v. LairdSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1956
  3. Succession of LaugaSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1993
  4. Daigle v. Clemco IndustriesSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1993
  5. Danos v. Waterford Oil CompanyLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1969

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. In the Matter of the Estate of Carroll Irving Sampson, Cheryl Ann Murken and Mary Ann Smith, Coexecutors of the Christine Rosilia Sampson EstateSupreme Court of Iowa · 2013
  2. Succession of ChatelainLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2001
  3. Succession of WilliamsLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1999
  4. In Re Successions of GurtnerLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2008
  5. Lanham v. Tri-State Sand & Gravel, Inc.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 2000

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