Legal Question in Family Law in Florida

My father-in-law is getting remarried. He believes his will executed before marriage, bequething his estate 80% to his daughter and 20% to his son on his death will be valid when he dies after the marriage. I believe his wife and her adult children could contest his will and the businesses he and my wife jointly own would now be controlled by her and where we have planned on owning these on his passing would now cause us to be working for her children, so to speak.


Asked on 8/29/10, 1:56 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Alan Wagner Wagner, McLaughlin & Whittemore P.A.

A wife has the ability to get a percentage of the estate. You do not say how the business is "jointly owned." If it is truely jointly owned so that upon death it passes to the other owner, then the will is irrelevant. I would see a business lawyer to see how things are really set up.

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Answered on 9/11/10, 6:26 pm


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