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2022 Florida Statutes
Title XL - Real and Personal Property
Chapter 689 - Conveyances of Land and Declarations of Trust
689.175 - Worthier Title Doctrine Abolished.
Universal Citation: FL Stat § 689.175 (2022)
689.175 Worthier title doctrine abolished.—The doctrine of worthier title is abolished as a rule of law and as a rule of construction. Language in a governing instrument describing the beneficiaries of a disposition as the transferor’s “heirs,” “heirs at law,” “next of kin,” “distributees,” “relatives,” or “family,” or language of similar import, does not create or presumptively create a reversionary interest in the transferor.
History.—s. 23, ch. 2006-217.