Senate Bill sb2214

    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 2214

    By Senator Jones





    13-1197-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to intestate succession;

  3         amending s. 732.103, F.S.; extending intestate

  4         succession to the paternal and maternal

  5         great-grandparents, the

  6         great-great-grandparents and other descendants;

  7         providing an effective date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Section 732.103, Florida Statutes, is

12  amended to read:

13         732.103  Share of other heirs.--The part of the

14  intestate estate not passing to the surviving spouse under s.

15  732.102, or the entire intestate estate if there is no

16  surviving spouse, descends as follows:

17         (1)  To the lineal descendants of the decedent.

18         (2)  If there is no lineal descendant, to the

19  decedent's father and mother equally, or to the survivor of

20  them.

21         (3)  If there is none of the foregoing, to the

22  decedent's brothers and sisters and the descendants of

23  deceased brothers and sisters.

24         (4)  If there is none of the foregoing, the estate

25  shall be divided, one-half of which shall go to the decedent's

26  paternal, and the other half to the decedent's maternal,

27  kindred in the following order:

28         (a)  To the grandfather and grandmother equally, or to

29  the survivor of them.

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 2214
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 1         (b)  If there is no grandfather or grandmother, to

 2  uncles and aunts and descendants of deceased uncles and aunts

 3  of the decedent.

 4         (c)  If there are none of the foregoing, to the

 5  great-grandfather and great-grandmother equally, or to the

 6  survivor of them.

 7         (d)  If there is no great-grandfather or

 8  great-grandmother, then to the brothers and sisters and

 9  descendants of deceased brothers and sisters of the

10  grandfather and grandmother of the decedent.

11         (e)  If there are none of the foregoing, to the

12  great-great-grandfather or great-great-grandmother equally, or

13  to the survivor of them.

14         (f)  If there is no great-great-grandfather or

15  great-great-grandmother, then to the brothers and sisters and

16  descendants of deceased brothers and sisters of the

17  great-grandfather and great-grandmother of the decedent.

18         (g)(c)  If there is either no paternal kindred or no

19  maternal kindred, the estate shall go to the other kindred who

20  survive, in the order stated above.

21         (5)  If there is no kindred of either part, the whole

22  of the property shall go to the kindred of the last deceased

23  spouse of the decedent as if the deceased spouse had survived

24  the decedent and then died intestate entitled to the estate.

25         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

26  law.

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29                          SENATE SUMMARY

30    Extends intestate succession to the paternal and maternal
      great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents,
31    including their brothers and sisters and their
      descendants.
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