What rights to forced heirship laws give me?
Full text of question: I moved here from another state several years ago. My mother is dead and my father was never any help when I was growing up and going through college. My father remarried someone much younger and I doubt that I am in his will. Now that I live in Louisiana, what rights do the forced heirship laws give me against my father’s estate? Answer: Assuming your father does not live in Louisiana, you have no forced heirship rights against his estate. Forced heirship only applies to citizens of Louisiana. Since your father lives in another state, the laws of that state would control inheritance rights. In any event, the forced heirship laws were changed so that only children under the age of 24 years or children that are permanently disabled are now forced heirs.
