Florida Statute 732.608 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLII
ESTATES AND TRUSTS

Chapter 732
PROBATE CODE: INTESTATE SUCCESSION AND WILLS

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732.608 Construction of terms.—The laws used to determine paternity and relationships for the purposes of intestate succession apply when determining whether class gift terminology and terms of relationship include adopted persons and persons born out of wedlock.

History.—s. 1, ch. 74-106; s. 38, ch. 75-220; s. 10, ch. 2010-132.

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Lewis v. Green, 389 So. 2d 235 (Fla. 5th DCA 1980).

Cited 13 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 11 A.L.R. 4th 927

...Section 732.108(1), Florida Statutes (1979), provides: For the purpose of intestate succession by or from an adopted person, the adopted person is a lineal descendant of the adopting parent and is one of the natural kindred of all of the members of the adopting parent's family ... Section 732.608, Florida Statutes (1979), provides: Adopted persons ......

...400 (1930). 28 Am.Jur.2d Estates § 276 (1966). 80 Am.Jur.2d Wills § 1434 (1975). [11] § 732.108(1), Fla. Stat. (1979). [12] The court said this statute was based on the first adoption statute in Florida of 1885. [13] § 732.108(1), Fla. Stat. (1979); § 732.608, Fla....

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Ott v. Ott, 418 So. 2d 460 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1982).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1982 Fla. App. LEXIS 21417

...In addition to a close reading of the literal wording 2 of the statute, resolution of this issue is aided by an examination of the background of section 732.606, Florida Statutes (1981). This section of the Florida Probate Code is virtually identical in language to section 732.608 of the Uniform Probate Code as originally proposed in Florida....

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Basile v. Aldrich, 70 So. 3d 682 (Fla. 1st DCA 2011).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2011 Fla. App. LEXIS 13243, 2011 WL 3696309

...Death Law"), section 732.603 ("Antilapse"), section 732.604 ("Failure of testamentary provision"), section 732.605 ("Change in securities"), section 732.606 ("Nonademption of specific devises"), section 732.607 ("Exercise of power of appointment"), section 732.608 ("Construction of generic terms") and section 732.609 ("Ademption by satisfaction"))....

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