2000 Florida Code
TITLE XLII ESTATES AND TRUSTS
Chapter 733 Probate Code: Administration Of Estates
PART II COMMENCING ADMINISTRATION (ss. 733.201-733.213)
733.207 Establishment and probate of lost or destroyed will.
733.207 Establishment and probate of lost or destroyed will.--
(1) The establishment and probate of a lost or destroyed will shall be in one proceeding. The court shall recite, and thereby establish and preserve, the full and precise terms and provisions of the will in the order admitting it to probate.
(2) The petition for probate of a lost or destroyed will shall contain a copy of the will or its substance. The testimony of each witness must be reduced to writing and filed and shall be evidence in any contest of the will if the witness has died or moved from the state.
(3) No lost or destroyed will shall be admitted to probate unless formal notice has been given to those who, but for the will, would be entitled to the property thereby devised. The content of the will must be clearly and distinctly proved by the testimony of two disinterested witnesses, or, if a correct copy is provided, it shall be proved by one disinterested witness.
History.--s. 1, ch. 74-106; s. 57, ch. 75-220.
Note.--Created from former s. 732.27.
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