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Practice Under Florida Probate Code
A practitioner's guide to the Florida Probate Code with a complete analysis of steps you must take to administer an estate in Florida.
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Written by skilled probate attorneys, Practice Under Florida Probate Code provides comprehensive analysis of all the steps you need to take to administer an estate in Florida. It features discussions of major changes to the Probate Code made over the past few years, alerts the user to recent changes to the Florida Probate Rules, and highlights relevant tax considerations. Forms, sample accountings, and charts for basic probate practice enhance the book’s practitioner focus.
Highlights of the new Tenth Edition include coverage of:
- Points of remote/online notarization within probate cases as a result of F.S. 117 amendments
- The jurisdiction of unclaimed property
- Application of Florida Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act
- Distinction within Ch. 2018-22 of homestead waiver right and new forms regarding homestead
- Elective share law changes
- Current case law with explanations and additional legislative and rule amendments
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Table of contents
Chapter 1 Important Preliminary Administration Issues
Staff of the Legal Publications Department of The Florida Bar
Chapter 2 Practice And Procedure
Robert F. Iseley, Jr
Chapter 3 Jurisdiction
Jay L. Kauffman
Chapter 4 Functions Of Lawyers And Personal Representatives
Shane Kelley and Jenna Rubin
Chapter 5 Initial Steps In Probate And Administration
Randall L. Marker
Chapter 6 Inventory And Appraisal
Rose M. LaFemina
Chapter 7 Elective Share
Daniel A. Hanley, William T. Hennessey, and Cristina Papanikos
Chapter 8 Creditors' Claims And Family Allowance
Frank T. Pilotte
Chapter 9 Management Of Decedent's Property
Staff of the Legal Publications Departmentof The Florida Bar
Chapter 10 Sales And Transfers Of Estate Assets
Tami F. Conetta
Chapter 11 Determination Of Beneficiaries And Their Interests
Pamela O. Price
Chapter 12 Fiduciary Accountings
Sandra Graham Sheets and Craig A. Mundy
Chapter 13 Partial Distributions
Pamela O. Price
Chapter 14 Final Distribution And Discharge
Jeffrey S. Goethe
Chapter 15 Compensation Of Personal Representatives And Lawyers And Other
Expenses Of Administration
Staff of the Legal Publications Department of The Florida Bar
Chapter 16 Curators
Robert F. Iseley, Jr
Chapter 17 Ancillary Administration
Robert A. Dawkins and Kateena E. Manners
Chapter 18 Small Estates And Summary Proceedings
Frank T. Pilotte
Chapter 19 Homestead And Exempt Personal Property
Tae Kelley Bronner and Rohan Kelley
Chapter 20 Pitfalls In Estate Administration—A View From The Bench
Hon. Mark A. Speiser
Chapter 21 Probate Litigation
Staff of the Legal Publications Departmentof The Florida Bar
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