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One outstanding question in astronomy is what happens to planetary systems as their host star evolves. Though indirect evidence such as metal polluted white dwarf atmospheres and debris disks around white dwarfs, and recent observations of a disintegrating transiting planetesimal around the white dwarf WD 1145+017, suggest that something must survive, we have yet to observe a solid body planetary companion orbiting a white dwarf. In this dissertation, we search the 90219 pount sources identified in the DECam minute cadence survey for evidence of planetary eclipses around white dwarfs, as well as other sources of stellar variability. We find no evidence of eclipse-like events consistent with a planet orbiting a white dwarf, though we do find evidence of two unexpected