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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLII
ESTATES AND TRUSTS
Chapter 736
FLORIDA TRUST CODE
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736.0403 Trusts created in other jurisdictions; formalities required for revocable trusts.
(1) A trust not created by will is validly created if the creation of the trust complies with the law of the jurisdiction in which the trust instrument was executed or the law of the jurisdiction in which, at the time of creation, the settlor was domiciled.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1):
(a) No trust or confidence of or in any messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall arise or result unless the trust complies with the provisions of s. 689.05.
(b) The testamentary aspects of a revocable trust, executed by a settlor who is a domiciliary of this state at the time of execution, are invalid unless the trust instrument is executed by the settlor with the formalities required for the execution of a will in this state. For purposes of this subsection, the term “testamentary aspects” means those provisions of the trust instrument that dispose of the trust property on or after the death of the settlor other than to the settlor’s estate.
(3) Paragraph (2)(b) does not apply to trusts established as part of an employee annuity described in s. 403 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, an individual retirement account as described in s. 408 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, a Keogh (HR-10) Plan, or a retirement or other plan that is qualified under s. 401 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(4) Paragraph (2)(b) applies to trusts created on or after the effective date of this code. Former s. 737.111, as in effect prior to the effective date of this code, continues to apply to trusts created before the effective date of this code.
History.s. 4, ch. 2006-217; s. 103, ch. 2019-3.

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Cases Citing Statute 736.0403

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Megiel-Rollo v. Megiel, 162 So. 3d 1088 (Fla. 2d DCA 2015).

Cited 6 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 5601, 2015 WL 1740365

...Estate of Engelke, 921 So. 2d 693, 697 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006). The parties agree that the Decedent executed the Trust with the requisite formalities for the execution of a will. See § 737.111(1), Fla. Stat. (1997) (repealed 2007, 2008) (current version at § 736.0403(4), Fla....
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Kelly v. Lindenau, 223 So. 3d 1074 (Fla. 2d DCA 2017).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2017 WL 2180970, 2017 Fla. App. LEXIS 6959

...2d DCA 2015). -4- In Florida, the testamentary aspects of a revocable trust5 are invalid unless the trust document is executed by the settlor of the trust with the same formalities as are required for the execution of a will. § 736.0403(2)(b), Fla....
...The court in Crawford explained that the signature of an attesting witness serves "as testimony of the fact that all legal steps necessary to make the will a legal instrument have been taken by the testator." Id. at 5 Section 736.0403(2)(b) defines "testamentary aspects" to mean trust provisions "that dispose of the trust property on or after the death of the settlor other than to the settlor's estate." 6 We cite to the 2014 version of...
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In Re Rogove, 443 B.R. 182 (Bankr. S.D. Fla. 2010).

Published | United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Florida. | 22 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. B 598, 2010 Bankr. LEXIS 3298

...rom the subject inter vivos trusts, triggered by the death of the settlor, constituted testamentary dispositions under applicable state law. Florida law recognizes the possibility of an inter vivos trust with testamentary aspects. [3] See FLA. STAT. § 736.0403(2)(b); Robinson v. Robinson (In re Estate of Robinson), 720 So.2d 540, 541 (Fla.4th DCA 1998). An inter vivos trust with testamentary aspects must be executed with the formalities of a will. FLA. STAT. § 736.0403(2)(b)....
...A trust's testamentary aspects are those provisions of the trust instrument that dispose of the trust property *189 on or after the death of the settlor other than to the settlor's estate. Id. This definition of "testamentary aspects" applies only for purposes of subsection 736.0403(2)(b) of the Florida Statutes....
...155, 159 (1914) (analyzing trust agreement in light of Florida's constitutional restriction against the testamentary disposition of homestead property); In re Johnson's Estate, 397 So.2d 970, 972 (Fla. 4th DCA 1981) (same). However, before and after the enactment of subsection 736.0403(2)(b) of the Florida Statutes and its predecessor statutes, Florida courts have ruled that an inter vivos trust that has testamentary aspects is not testamentary, or the functional equivalent of a will, under Florida law....
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Raul Parisi v. Maria Isabel Quadri De Kingston, Etc. (Fla. 3d DCA 2023).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...Id. On appeal, the Second District Court of Appeal noted that “[i]n Florida, the testamentary aspects of a revocable trust are invalid unless the trust document is executed by the settlor of the trust with the same formalities as are required for the execution of a will. Id. (citing § 736.0403(2)(b), Fla....

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