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WOODS v. ESTATE OF WOODS

Nos. 96-1917, 96-2415.

681 So.2d 903 (1996)

Pamela WOODS, etc., Appellant, v. The ESTATE of Graham WOODS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

October 23, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sharon L. Wolfe and Maureen Gallen of Cooper & Wolfe, P.A., and Rivkind & Pedraza, P.A., Miami, for appellant.

No brief filed on behalf of appellee.

WARNER, Judge.

Appellant petitioned the trial court to declare Graham Woods as deceased because he had perished at sea in the sinking of a cruise ship during a hurricane. Believing that section 731.103, Florida Statutes (1995), precluded the court from declaring Mr. Woods dead before the expiration of five years, the trial court denied the petition. We reverse.

Graham Woods was a crew member of the cruise ship, Club Royale. As Hurricane Erin approached on...

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