Breaking Probate News: Mom Kills Child Over $1 Million Trust Fund Inheritance?

Uncategorized • Aug 31, 2014

Media reports suggest that a mother was involved in the death of her child who was a trust beneficiary of a $1 Million Trust Fund .

Can a Killer Inherit from the Estate or Trust? Sad Probate Litigation

ABC News and the Associated Press are reporting that an inheritance investigation is going on surrounding the death of a child, purportedly at the hands of the child’s mother and apparently the only heir at law.
Evidently the child was a beneficiary of a trust fund set up from a lawsuit and law enforcement believes the trust fund was a possible motive in the untimely death.

Palm Beach County probate law firms remember a famous slayer statute case a few years ago when a famous and very wealthy hedge fund manager from Jupiter, Florida ended up dead in his pool
Florida has a “slayer statute”
You can’t inherit if you kill someone: the probate laws in Florida strip the killer of probate rights and inheritances
But more than that: Florida Probate Courts have to enforce the Florida Probate Code which says
If you “unlawfully and intentionally kill or participate in procuring the death of ” someone, you don’t inherit
This language in the Florida Probate Code has led some Palm Beach county probate lawyers to believe that you can lose your inheritance even if you don’t intentionally kill/murder someone.
What if you negligently operate machinery or a car that leads to someone’s death?
Can you be stripped of your inheritance rights if cause a death in Florida accidently?
And with the Florida estate laws, there is no exception for parents or loved ones…….

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