LAN v. ESTATE OF RIDINGER (2025)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Ollie LAN, et al., Appellants, v. IN RE: ESTATE OF James Howard RIDINGER, Appellee.

No. 3D24-0433

Decided: December 17, 2025

Before EMAS, FERNANDEZ and BOKOR, JJ.

Lindemann Law Firm, and Blake J. Lindemann (Beverly Hills, CA); LMK Legal, and Laurence Marc Krutchik, for appellants. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, PC, and Roselvin S. Edelman, for appellee.

Affirmed. See In re Est. of Gay, 294 So. 2d 668, 670 (Fla. 4th DCA 1974) (“[E]very claimant having a claim against the estate of a decedent, who is not within one of the several exceptions expressly provided in the statute, must in person or through agent or attorney timely file a claim in the manner prescribed by the statute or else the claim becomes void. If class claims could be filed on behalf of unnamed members of a specific designated class of persons, the statute of nonclaim could be rendered meaningless ․”); Baillargeon v. Sewell, 33 So. 3d 130, 142 (Fla. 2d DCA 2010) (agreeing that Probate Code does not allow class claims to be filed in probate); see also Shotts v. OP Winter Haven, Inc., 86 So. 3d 456, 465 (Fla. 2011) (“It is for the court, not the arbitrator, to decide whether a valid written agreement to arbitrate exists.” (citation modified)).

PER CURIAM.

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