DENNIS v. KLINE

Nos. 4D12-1881, 4D12-2589.

120 So.3d 11 (2013)

Dianna Robin DENNIS, individually and as Co-Trustee of the Thomas Gordon Dennis Revocable Trust of 1989 as amended and Lauren Keely Haws, Appellants, v. Harriet D. KLINE and Deutsche Bank Trust Company, N.A., as Co-Trustee of the Thomas Gordon Dennis Revocable Trust 1989 as amended, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

June 19, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Downey , Rachel M. Evert and R. Lee McElroy, IV of Downey & Downey, P.A., Palm Beach Gardens, for appellants.

James G. Pressly, Jr. , of Pressly & Pressly, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellee, Harriet D. Kline.


GROSS, J.

In 2011, a beneficiary of a 1989 trust adopted a 27-year-old woman whom she had known since birth and treated like a daughter. The adoption impacted those who would inherit under the trust, so another beneficiary brought suit in Florida seeking to modify the trust to exclude the adoptee as a potential beneficiary. The circuit court granted summary judgment, excluding the 27 year old from becoming a beneficiary of the trust. We reverse because the issue of...

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