Florida Statute 717.139 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XL
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY

Chapter 717
DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY

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717.139 Uniformity of application and construction.—

(1) It is the public policy of the state to protect the interests of owners of unclaimed property. It is declared to be in the best interests of owners of unclaimed property that such owners receive the full amount of any unclaimed property without any fee.

(2) This chapter shall be applied and construed as to effectuate its general purpose of protecting the interest of missing owners of property, while providing that the benefit of all unclaimed and abandoned property shall go to all the people of the state, and to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states enacting it.

History.—s. 40, ch. 87-105; s. 10, ch. 2016-90.

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Agnes Bartsch v. John Costello, 170 So. 3d 83 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015).

Cited 15 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 9266, 2015 WL 3759702

...The trial court did not specifically rule on this count, other than to deny it. The trial court ruled correctly, because appellant did not have standing to pursue the 1 The Act appears to be designed to protect both the interests of the rightful owners of the unclaimed property and the interests of the state. See § 717.139, Fla....

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