Succession of Caprito

STOKER, Judge.

This is a dispute over the estate of Salvador Caprito, who died on March 9, 1982, at the age of ninety-eight. The dispute is between Mr. Caprito’s children, James C. Mayhew, a/k/a Noel Caprito, and Gertrude Caprito Daily, and his niece and nephew, Marguerite Caprito Dial and J.T. Caprito. Gertrude is represented by her guardian and daughter, Helen Vaughan.

FACTS

Mr. Caprito was born on December 23, 1883, in Franklin, Louisiana. He married Annie Ehrhardt on April 18, 1912, and they were divorced on December 14, 1915. One child of the marriage, Gertrude, was born before the divorce,…