Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Louisiana

I'm not sure what my question really is but here goes. My paternal Grand mother recently passed away and there is some question about the will actually be written by her as it does not voice her true feeling except for one or two key points. There is some land involved 10 acres with the family home on it. but the corcern is that the grand children be allow to take a memento from the furnishing of the home. But my uncle her son and caretaker for the last few years of her life and his children where the instrument that placed Grand mothers word to paper and needless to say it got fowled in the translation from her mouth to the pen. Then current will was notarized and after it had been put to paper and the notary was a friend of one of my uncles children. Are there ground here to contest the will so he does gain ownership of all of the furnishing. Especially since I know for a fact that the way it was written as adopted as her will was not the way she intended it to be. As I to care for my grandmother when my uncle needed sometime away to clear his head.


Asked on 7/21/10, 7:02 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Nick Pizzolatto, Jr. Pizzolatto Law Office

You need a probate attorney on the ground where the testament will be probated. I cannot help much because all you are saying is the will does not "state her true wishes." You never said it was not her signature or she was not lucid when she signed tells me that the only thing wrong with it is it did not give you what you thought you were getting. So get an attorney in the Parish where the succession will be opened.

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Answered on 7/22/10, 4:42 pm


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