What Palm Beach Estate Beneficiaries Need to Know About Florida’s Business Records Exception to the Hearsay Rule

Involved in estate litigation in Palm Beach or Ft. Lauderdale?  If you are preparing for a Palm Beach probate trial, your Palm Beach estate litigator will be getting his or her ducks in a row and planning on how to get documents into evidence.  If your Palm Beach probate litigator has any computer-generated documents which he or she wants admitted into evidence at your Palm Beach inheritance trial, you need to read this March 4, 2014 1st District Court of Appeal opinion.

This case, not a probate case, dealt with Florida’s HEARSAY rule and the business records exception.  This is important to probate litigators from Palm Beach to Boca Raton to Miami because this recent case involved a financial institution.  We all know that in Palm Beach inheritance lawsuits, and Ft. Lauderdale trust lawsuits, estate litigators and trust litigators may need to get bank records or trust statements into evidence.  This case is a great help to Palm Beach estate beneficiaries who are in the middle of a Palm Beach probate or better yet a trial.  It tells you the four (4) requirements for the business records exception to the  Florida Hearsay Rule and reviews important aspects of the Florida Evidence Code, something which Palm Beach inheritance litigators need to know.  It also reviews what a witness needs to do or say at the estate trial to get those computer-generated documents into evidence, and how your estate lawyer can keep them out.