FIEL v. HOFFMAN

No. 4D14-1048.

169 So.3d 1274 (2015)

Meredith FIEL and Lisa Fiel, Appellants, v. Douglas F. HOFFMAN, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Ben H. Novack, Jr., Narcy Novack, Marchelo Gaffney, Patrick Gaffney, May Azaleh Abad, and Harvey E. Morse, P.A., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

July 29, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elliot B. Kula and W. Aaron Daniel of Kula & Associates, P.A., Miami, and Peter A. Dyson of Metnick, Levy & Dyson, Delray Beach, for appellants.

Gary L. Rudolf of Rudolf & Hoffman, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee Douglas F. Hoffman.

William G. Crawford, Jr. of McDonald & Crawford, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellees Marchelo Gaffney, Patrick Gaffney and May Abad.


In this appeal, we are asked to extend the Slayer Statute to bar the children and grandchildren of the murderer from inheriting under the decedent's will. The language of the Slayer Statute does not allow us to make that extension. We therefore affirm the trial court's order dismissing the appellants' complaint based upon the Slayer Statute...

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