Lee v. Estate of Payne
Lee v. Estate of Payne , 148 So.3d 776, 2013 WL 5225200 (Fla. 2d DCA 2013) This case involved a decedent's fiance's attempt to admit the decedent's Colorado holographic will in Florida (where the decedent owned three homes). The holographic will left the fiance one of the houses, plus $40,000 from the sale of the other two houses. He left his father the remainder of the sale proceedings. The decedent's sister and Colorado personal representative filed a Petition for Administration in Florida, and alleged that the holographic will was not valid under F.S. 732.502(2), since it was not executed in compliance with F.S. 732.502(1). She listed the decedent's minor daughter as the only beneficiary of the estate. The fiance sought to have the Florida court admit the holographic will to probate to give full faith and credit to the Colorado court. F.S. 734.104 say that a foreign will that devises Florida real property and is admitted to probate in anothe...