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RAINESS v. ESTATE OF MACHIDA

Nos. 3D09-2938, 3D10-594.

81 So.3d 504 (2012)

Errol RAINESS, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. In re: ESTATE OF Keiko MACHIDA, et al., Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied March 9, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Martin Coe ; Podhurst Orseck, P.A., and Joel D. Eaton , Miami, for appellant.

Shutts and Bowen LLP, and Stephen T. Maher , Richard E. Landman , Temple Fett Kearns, George N. Andrews , and Danet Rodriguez Figg , Ft. Lauderdale, for appellees Bank of America, N.A., and FIA Card Services, N.A.; and Jason Warshofsky, Miami, for appellee Yamashita.

Before WELLS, C.J., and CORTIÑAS and ROTHENBERG, JJ.

ROTHENBERG, J.

This is a consolidated appeal following an interpleader proceeding filed by Bank of America ("the Bank"). The factual and procedural predicate is as follows. In 1998, Keiko Machida ("Machida") opened an IRA, worth in excess of $1,500,000.00, with MBNA America Bank, which later merged with the Bank.1 Machida subsequently married Errol Rainess ("Rainess") on August 22, 2001, and died shortly thereafter on November 4, 2001...

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