Crime does not pay, but an inheritance sure does. Does the fact that someone committed a murder to get their inheritance matter? Have you read Florida’s Slayer Statute? A Salem court has just found another person guilty in a plot of murder stemming from an inheritance.
Should a killer inherit from the estate?
- A jury recently found a 24 year old guilty — of killing of a 30 year old man, from a rifle.
- This is not the usual inheritance murder story, where a rich relative in Delray may be murdered by their kids in Boca who want to get at their inheritance.
- This is actually, according to media reports, the second conviction after a July 2014 guilty plea and a life sentance.
- In December of 2013, money from a safe was taken and wrong doers split the money then burned and buried their clothes. Check out the whole case from this Oregon paper.
Doesn’t Florida have a probate law about killers not inheriting?
- Any Palm Beach Probate attorney can tell you there are probably wiser things to do with your money than locking it up inside a trailer park, but that does not mean your money is safe.
- Do you know who is managing your West Palm Beach Trusts or other Florida accounts?
- Is your money safe?
- Are you sure that your relatives are not gunning for your inheritance?
- What limits does the Florida Slayer Statute put on an individual who commits a crime to gain an inheritance or expectancy interest?
- Have you read the Florida probate law which says that a killer or murderer should not inherit?
- Do you know how to stop a killer from inheriting if there is no criminal conviction in Florida?