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Fla. Stat. § 689.14 (2025)

Entailed estates.

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689.14 Entailed estates.—No property, real or personal, shall be entailed in this state. Any instrument purporting to create an estate tail, express or implied, shall be deemed to create an estate for life in the first taker with remainder per stirpes to the lineal descendants of the first taker in being at the time of her or his death. If the remainder fails for want of such remainderman, then it shall vest in any other remaindermen designated in such instrument, or, if there is no such designation, then it shall revert to the original donor or to her or his heirs.
History.—s. 20, Nov. 17, 1829; RS 1818; GS 2293; RGS 3616; CGL 5481; s. 2, ch. 20954, 1941; s. 1, ch. 23126, 1945; s. 757, ch. 97-102.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 1963–1963 · leading case: In Re Est. of Rentz, 152 So. 2d 480 (Fla. 3d DCA 1963).
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In Re Est. of Rentz, 152 So. 2d 480 (Fla. 3d DCA 1963). “providing that upon the creation of a life estate with the remainder over to the lineal descendants, the remainder shall be subject to open and to take in per stirpes lineal descendants of the life tenant who come into being during the life estate; and § 689.14 providing that…”
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