2002 Florida Code
TITLE XLII ESTATES AND TRUSTS
Chapter 732 PROBATE CODE: INTESTATE SUCCESSION AND WILLS
PART IV EXEMPT PROPERTY AND ALLOWANCES (ss. 732.401-732.403)
732.4015 Devise of homestead.
732.4015 Devise of homestead.--
(1) As provided by the Florida Constitution, the homestead shall not be subject to devise if the owner is survived by a spouse or minor child, except that the homestead may be devised to the owner's spouse if there is no minor child.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the term:
(a) "Owner" includes the grantor of a trust described in s. 733.707(3) that is evidenced by a written instrument which is in existence at the time of the grantor's death as if the interest held in trust was owned by the grantor.
(b) "Devise" includes a disposition by trust of that portion of the trust estate which, if titled in the name of the grantor of the trust, would be the grantor's homestead.
History.--s. 1, ch. 74-106; ss. 18, 30, ch. 75-220; s. 16, ch. 92-200; s. 959, ch. 97-102; s. 38, ch. 2001-226.
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