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Homestead Litigation
Can a condo subject to a 100 year lease = creditor protected homestead property for your heirs?

What happens when homestead property is invalidly devised in trust? (Hint: think life estate)
Estate planners beware. As reported here by the WSJ, “When it comes…
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If a foreign national doesn’t qualify for the homestead tax exemption, is he also automatically disqualified from claiming homestead creditor protection?
Homestead rights evaporate at death if property was owned as a joint tenancy with right of survivorship
Marger v. De Rosa, — So.3d —-, 2011 WL 252942 (Fla.
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Can husband and wife waive homestead rights by merely signing a joint deed?
Habeeb v. Linder, — So.3d —-, 2011 WL 613392 (Fla. 3d…
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Does homestead property in marital trust lose its creditor protection?
This is the second time the 3d DCA has weighed in on…
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New legislation cures Florida’s “homestead trap” for widows and widowers and resolves conflicting judicial decisions regarding post-death disclaimers of homestead rights
Back in 2007 I wrote here about a provocative Florida Bar Journal…

5th DCA on Rescinding Fraudulently Obtained Deeds
Townsend v. Morton, — So.3d —-, 2010 WL 2218327 (Fla. 5th…
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The 4th DCA construes will properly devising Florida homestead
Pajares v. Donahue, — So.3d —-, 2010 WL 934101 (Fla. 4th…
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