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Ms. Beckford's Guide : Legislative history

Florida's Wills, Trusts, and Estates: Intestate Succession by Janesha Beckford

Commitee Reports/Florida Staff Analysis

Fla. Stat. 732.101 prior version:

732.101. Intestate estate

(1) Any part of the estate of a decedent not effectively disposed of by will passes to the decedent's heirs as prescribed in the following sections of this code.

(2) The decedent's death is the event that vests the heirs' right to intestate property.

West's F. S. A. § 732.101, FL ST § 732.101

Current with laws and joint resolutions in effect from the 2021 First Regular Session and Special “A” Session of the Twenty-Seventh Legislature. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.

Updated version:

Effective: January 1, 2002

West's F.S.A. § 732.101

732.101. Intestate estate

Currentness

(1) Any part of the estate of a decedent not effectively disposed of by will passes to the decedent's heirs as prescribed in the following sections of this code.

(2) The decedent's death is the event that vests the heirs' right to the decedent's intestate property.

2008 Florida House Bill No. 941, Florida One Hundred Tenth Regular Session (FULL TEXT - NETSCAN)

Amended by Laws 2001, c. 2001-226, § 14, eff. Jan. 1, 2002

 

Florida Staff Analysis, S.B. 988, 1/18/2012

The bill revises the effective date of the 2011 amendments to s. 732.102, F.S., so that the changes to that section apply only to the estates of decedents dying on or after October 1, 2011. Section 732.102, F.S., was amended in 2011 to revise the share a decedent's spouse receives as part of an intestate estate under certain circumstances.

Effective July 1, 2012, and applicable to estates of persons dying on or after July 1, 2012, the bill:

• amends the definition of “protected homestead” in s. 733.201, F.S., to clarify that real property owned in joint tenancy with right of survivorship is not protected homestead.

• amends s. 732.401(2)(c), F.S., to revise the time under which an attorney in fact or guardian for an incapacitated spouse must file a petition for authority to make an election to take an undivided one-half interest as tenant in common in the decedent's homestead.

• creates s. 732.1081, F.S., to amend the probate code to bar inheritance through intestate succession by a parent from a child in cases when the natural or adoptive parent's parental rights were terminated pursuant to ch. 39, F.S., prior to the death of the child. In such cases, the natural or adoptive parent must be treated as if the parent predeceased the child.

This bill creates section 732.1081, Florida Statutes, and one undesignated section of law.

This bill amends sections 731.201732.401, Florida Statutes.

 

House of Representatives Staff Analysis, House Bill 349

  • January 27, 2020

House of Representatives Staff Analysis, House Bill 349

  • February 5, 2020

House of Representatives Staff Final Bill Analysis, House Bill 349

  • CS/HB 349 passed the House on March 10, 2020, as CS/CS/SB 580.
  • March 2020

House of Representatives Staff Analysis, House Bill 0137

  • February 7, 2020

House of Representatives Staff Analysis, House Bill 137

  • February 20, 2020

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