Are Computer Generated Reports Hearsay in Palm Beach Estate Trials ?

Palm Beach estate litigation firms and their beneficiary and executor clients know that probate litigation combines a lot of “stuff.”  Probate litigators from Palm Beach Gardens to Boca Raton use evidence  & Florida probate law to apply it to very fact-specific will challenges & inheritance lawsuits.  You need credible evidence, or what the Palm Beach probate courts call “substantial competent evidence.” So, can a computer-generated report get admitted into evidence at a Palm Beach estate lawsuit trial?  Isn’t it hearsay and inadmissible?

Florida Evidence

• Is the computer generated report “evidence” & admissible?
• Can you have the expert or technician who prepared the report testify?
• What was the computer-generated report based on?….more hearsay?

Florida Probate Code & Rules of Evidence

• remember, if you are a Palm Beach executor or personal representative or heir at law
• And you are in the middle of a probate litigation trial: consider
• The Florida rules of evidence apply to your inheritance lawsuit:  NOT JUST the Florida Probate Code
• You need someone to lay a foundation to begin to introduce the probate evidence
• The evidence needs to be relevant to the Palm Beach probate
• The evidence cannot be excluded based upon the exclusionary rules of the Florida Evidence Code
• You need to know why you are introducing the evidence:  Q: for what purpose?