Louisiana man dies without a will, Supreme Court upholds daughter's inheritance 70 years later

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A Louisiana man died without a will in 1956, and a court recognised his daughter as the heir to his estate in 1996. Nearly 30 years later, another family challenged her right to inherit a 50% share of a property. On October 30, the Louisiana Supreme Court rejected the challenge as legally time-barred, upholding the earlier inheritance ruling.