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• 4th DCA: Can a probate judge boot a recalcitrant cotenant out of homestead property?

  Buettner v. Fass, --- So.3d ----, 2009 WL 3446478 (Fla. 4th DCA Oct 28, 2009)

  Why??!!, your clients will ask, do you have to start a new partition action in front of a new judge to adjudicate an existing dispute involving a decedent's homestead property if everything else the decedent [...]

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• 3d DCA: Is Florida's slayer statute equivalent to a forfeiture statute, awarding all of a killer's property to the estate of the victim?

  LoCascio v. Sharpe, --- So.3d ----, 2009 WL 3448111 (Fla.App. 3 Dist. Oct 28, 2009)

  Silvia Locascio's brutally beaten corpse was found in her home (pictured below) on October 30, 2001. Eventually her husband and brother-in-law were found guilty of her murder - based in large part on the testimony' [...]

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• Georgia's 'Slayer Statute' Doesn't Bar Lawyers From Keeping Fees Paid by Executrix, Judges Rule

  

  A year ago things looked pretty bleak for attorney Ben Kuehne here in Miami and a couple of Georgia lawyers who were arrested and apparently spent a night in jail after their client was forced to forfeit estate assets under Georgia's Slayer Statute [click here]. All were' [...]

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• Georgia's 'Slayer Statute' Doesn't BaLawyers From Keeping Fees Paid by Executrix, Judges Rule

  

  A year ago things looked pretty bleak for attorney Ben Kuehne here in Miami and a couple of Georgia lawyers who were arrested and apparently spent a night in jail after their client was forced to forfeit estate assets under Georgia's Slayer Statute [click here]. All were [...]

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