In re Boyd

bREMY CHIASSON, Judge Pro Tem.

In this action, petitioner seeks to have his sister, an absentee, declared legally dead based upon a showing that no member of petitioner’s family has had any communication or correspondence with said absentee since 1983. Following the trial court’s denial of judgment, petitioner now appeals.

FACTS

In a Petition For Declaration Of Death filed on his behalf in East Baton Rouge Parish on January 23,1996, petitioner, Ralph E. Pitzel (hereafter, “Mr. Pitzel”), asserts that he is the sole sibling of Penelope Elizabeth Pitzel Boyd (hereafter, “Penelope”), an absentee.…