Legal Opinion
Succession of Steen
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided June 22, 1987No. 87-C-0354PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
508 So.2d 1377 (1987)
SUCCESSION OF John Wesley STEEN.
No. 87-C-0354.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
June 22, 1987.
Rehearing Denied September 3, 1987.
Leon John Harrell, Jr., Baton Rouge, for applicant.
Alton Bayard, III, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, Baton Rouge, for respondent.
WATSON, Justice.
When full ownership of a decedent's disposable portion has been bequeathed to a surviving spouse, can the spouse also inherit a testamentary usufruct over the disposable portion which can be deducted from the total value for state inheritance tax purposes?
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John Wesley Steen,…
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2Cases cited7 opinions
- Succession of MarsalSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1907
- Succession of BakerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1911
- Succession of MartinSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1958
- In Re Stelly's EstateLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1939
- Succession of NortonLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1963
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3Cited by6 opinions
- George G. Rodrigue, Jr. And Richard Steiner v. Veronica Hidalgo RodrigueCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2000
- Morgan v. LeachLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1996
- Rourke v. Estate of DretarLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2018
- Darby v. RozasLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1991
- Succession of MalbroughLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1996
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