IN RE ESTATE OF GORN

No. 87-2427.

526 So.2d 118 (1988)

In re ESTATE OF Mordechai Martin GORN a/K/a Mortin Gorn a/K/a Mordechai Gorn. David GORN, Individually and As Personal Representative, Appellant, v. TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied June 8, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard T. Earle, III, of Earle and Earle, St. Petersburg, for appellant.

Robert M. Winick of Fisher & Sauls, P.A., Seminole, for appellees.


PER CURIAM.

The facts before us, which need not be detailed in expressing our conclusion to reverse the trial court, disclose a codicil executed within the 6 month period preceding the testator's death. The effect of the codicil was to convert potential gifts to charitable entities into actual bequests. Because that conversion occurred less than six months from death, section 732.803(1), Florida Statutes (1985), renders the charitable gifts voidable. Accordingly,...

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