Succession of Hoffpauir

DOMENGEAUX, Judge.

In this succession proceeding, five of the decedent’s children, namely, Juanita Yerna, Willie Mae, Helen Lee, Velma Lurline, and Wilmer Ray filed a petition for collation, for an accounting, and a return of assets held in usufruct against their brother, Wilfred.1 The petitioners allege that Wilfred received an advantage (as a forced heir) of his succession share through the sales of immovable property. The petitioners claim that the sales of some Acadia and Vermilion Parish tracts (and the surviving spouse usufruct on the Vermilion tract) by Mrs. Hoffpauir to Wilfred were,…