Ms. Beckford's Guide : Encycopedias/ Treatises

West's Florida Practice Series

• Wills
• § 7:17. Share of the state of Florida
• § 7:16. Shares of other heirs
• § 7:15. Spouse's share

American Law Reports

• Descent and distribution: rights of inheritance as between kindred of whole and half blood, 47 A.L.R.4th 561
• Descent and distribution to and among cousins, 54 A.L.R.2d 1009
• Descent and distribution to and among uncles and aunts, 55 A.L.R.2d 643
• Descent and distribution to nieces and nephews as per stirpes or per capita, 19 A.L.R.2d 191

The Florida Bar

• 1 Basic Estate Planning in Florida § 4.2 THE SPOUSE
• 1 Basic Estate Planning in Florida § 4.5 ADOPTED PERSONS AND THEIR ISSUE
• 1 Basic Estate Planning in Florida Chapter 4. SPECIAL CLASSES OF PERSONS
• 1 Basic Estate Planning in Florida § 4.3 MINORS
• 1 Basic Estate Planning in Florida § 4.6 THE FAMILY

Florida Jurisprudence 2d

The order of succession of an intestate's property in Florida is set forth by statute. The Florida Probate Code provides for the order of intestate succession by first making provision for the share of the surviving spouse and then providing for the shares of other classes of heirs or kindred. 

• §50 Parents of intestate
• §51 Brothers and sisters of intestate and their descendants
• §52 Paternal kindred and maternal kindred
• §53 Kindred of predeceased spouse
• §54 After-born Heirs
• §56 Pretermitted child
• §57 Adopted person
• §58: Person born out of wedlock
• §59 Surviving spouse and descendants, generally
• §60 Where estate does not descend to spouse
• §61 Where spousal rights are procured by fraud, duress, or undue influence
• §62 Special rights of surviving spouse

Florida Jurisprudence Forms: Legal and Business

• § 35:206. Devise of estate according to laws of descent and distribution