COHEN v. SHUSHAN

Case No. 2D15-4629.

212 So.3d 1113 (2017)

Diana COHEN, Appellant, v. Mali Ben SHUSHAN; Nicole Masheet Eyal; Sharon Lee Cohen; Joel R. Epperson, Esq., as Guardian ad Litem for Shlomo Chich Cohen and Or Yam Cohen; Steven L. Hearn, as Curator of the Estate of Yehezkel Cohen, deceased; and Michael Cohen, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Opinion filed March 15, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Landis V. Curry, III , and Mark M. Wall of Hill, Ward & Henderson, P.A., Tampa, for Appellant.

Heather A. DeGrave , Stuart Jay Levine , and Alan F. Gonzales of Walters, Levine, Klingensmith & Thomison, P.A., Tampa, for Appellees Mali Ben Shushan; Nicole Masheet Eyal; Sharon Lee Cohen; Joel R. Epperson, Esq., as Guardian ad Litem for Shlomo Chich Cohen and Or Yam Cohen.

No appearance for remaining Appellees.


We have before us an inheritance dispute that poses the question of whether a couple was ever lawfully married under Israeli law. The probate court concluded that Mali Ben Shushan and the late Yehezkel Cohen were in a recognized legal union in Israel at the time of Mr. Cohen's passing; thus...

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