DASCAL v. DASCAL (2026)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Elizabeth Joy DASCAL, Appellant, v. IN RE: Charles DASCAL, et al., Appellees.

No. 3D24-0733

Decided: January 14, 2026

Before LOGUE, LINDSEY and GOODEN, JJ.

Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman, P.L. and Edward George Guedes, Laura Keats Wendell, Coral Gables and Bryan C. Siddique, for appellant. Katz Baskies & Wolf PLLC, and James Raymond George (Boca Raton), for appellees Jacqueline Dascal Chariff and Ana Maria Camacho.

Affirmed. See § 736.08135(2)(c), Fla. Stat. (2024) (“To the extent feasible, the accounting must identify and value trust assets on hand at the close of the accounting period. For each asset or class of assets reasonably capable of valuation, the accounting shall contain two values, the asset acquisition value or carrying value and the estimated current value.”) (emphasis added); Pounds v. Pounds, 703 So. 2d 487, 488 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997) (“In construing the provisions of a trust, the cardinal rule is to try to give effect to the grantor's intent, if possible. The grantor's intent should not be determined by resort to isolated words and phrases, but rather by a construction of the instrument as a whole, and the general plan interpreted.”) (internal citations omitted).

PER CURIAM.

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