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 Cases: Florida’s Probate Slayer Statute
- 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…….
Q: Want to read more?
A: Here are free links:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mom-charged-girls-death-trust-fund-25195888
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/mom-charged-girls-death-could-get-trust-fund