Question juridique clé
Whether the sums paid to B.X. were loans or inheritance advances subject to equalization.
Solution extraite
The payments are to be qualified, as a matter of proof, as loans and not as equalizable inheritance advances.
Motifs extraits
The written agreements, the estate inventory, the declared loan entries, and the lack of convincing evidence of an intended advance on inheritance outweighed the appellants' contrary interpretation. The later recharacterization was unpersuasive, and the deceased could alter equalization arrangements informally.