Succession of Helis

The majority opinion, while acknowledging that the cost of administering a community estate, including the attorney’s fee, is chargeable to “the decedent’s share of the community and the wife’s share equally”, nevertheless holds in this case that all expenses of administration shall be borne by the decedent’s share of the community because an administration of the community “was totally unnecessary except for the purpose of facilitating the computation and payment of the inheritance taxes due by the estate of the decedent alone under the very complicated federal inheritance tax laws.” I…