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IN RE ESTATE OF BOYD

No. 87-0093.

519 So.2d 692 (1988)

In re ESTATE OF Ira C. BOYD, Deceased.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

February 3, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig Boudreau, of Kohl and Mighdoll, West Palm Beach, for appellant-William Joel Moore.

James E. Weber, of James E. Weber, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellee-Joanne Price, Personal Representative of the Estate of Jettie R. Boyd, deceased.

ANSTEAD, Judge.

We affirm because we do not believe the concept of abandonment, in the manner in which it was applied in Barlow v. Barlow, 156 Fla. 458, 23 So.2d 723 (1945), survived the amendment of the homestead provisions of the Florida Constitution in 1985. Accordingly, we believe the appellee, as the surviving spouse, is entitled to the homestead real property of her deceased husband.1

It appears that the abandonment...

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