Allard v. Frech

MAUZY, Justice.

This case involves the proper characterization of retirement benefits and joint savings account proceeds in a probate action. The trial court rendered judgment characterizing the husband’s retirement benefits and joint savings account proceeds as community property and awarded the wife’s estate one-half of the husband’s retirement benefits and one-half of the proceeds in the joint savings account. The court of appeals affirmed these findings of the trial court holding that the proceeds from the husband’s retirement plan were properly characterized as community property and *113that…