District Court of Appeal of Florida

A probate order determining heirs and directing that one-half of the property of an estate be deposited with the clerk of court is reversed in part where the trial court erred in determining that one-half of an estate was subject to the provisions of Florida Statutes section 733.816 since there was no basis for escheat of property as lawful heirs had established their status under applicable law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/31/2006
• Published 03/31/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Holly R. Skolnick and Charles M. Auslander of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Miami, and Bert J. Harris, III, of Swaine, Harris & Sheehan, Lake Placid, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Charles M. Fahlbusch, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Fort Lauderdale, for Appellee State of Florida, Department of Legal Affairs., Clifford M. Ables, III, of Ables & Ritenour, P.A., Sebring, for Appellee Mary L. Bengtson f/k/a Mary L. Young, Personal Representative of the Estate of Irving Faskowitz a/k/a Irving Fisk.