IN RE ESTATE OF TAYLOR

No. 87-463.

516 So.2d 322 (1987)

In re the ESTATE OF Helen V. TAYLOR, Deceased. Mary Helen HINES and Cynthia Whidden, As Personal Representatives of the Estate of Helen V. Taylor, Deceased, Appellants, v. GESSLER CLINIC, P.A., and Winter Haven Hospital, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

December 9, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Frost and David C. Lockwood of Frost & Purcell, P.A., Bartow, and Andrew P. Trakas of Andrew P. Trakas, P.A., Winter Haven, for appellants.

Rex P. Cowan of Kalogridis & Cowan, Winter Haven, for appellees.


SCHEB, Judge.

The 1985 amendment to Article 10, Section 4, of the Florida Constitution exempts from forced sale a homestead "owned by a natural person" instead of "the head of family." The question we address in this appeal is whether such exemption inures to the benefit of a decedent's heirs who are not dependent on the decedent. The trial court answered the question in the negative and denied a petition to set the decedent's homeplace aside as exempt from her creditors...

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