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2002 Florida Code
TITLE XLII ESTATES AND TRUSTS
Chapter 732 PROBATE CODE: INTESTATE SUCCESSION AND WILLS  
PART II ELECTIVE SHARE OF SURVIVING SPOUSE; RIGHTS IN COMMUNITY PROPERTY (ss. 732.201-732.228)
732.219   Disposition upon death.

732.219  Disposition upon death.--Upon the death of a married person, one-half of the property to which ss. 732.216-732.228 apply is the property of the surviving spouse and is not subject to testamentary disposition by the decedent or distribution under the laws of succession of this state. One-half of that property is the property of the decedent and is subject to testamentary disposition or distribution under the laws of succession of this state. The decedent's one-half of that property is not in the elective estate.

History.--s. 7, ch. 92-200; s. 32, ch. 2001-226; s. 107, ch. 2002-1.

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