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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLII
ESTATES AND TRUSTS
Chapter 733
PROBATE CODE: ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES
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F.S. 733.815
733.815 Private contracts among interested persons.Subject to the rights of creditors and taxing authorities, interested persons may agree among themselves to alter the interests, shares, or amounts to which they are entitled in a written contract executed by them. The personal representative shall abide by the terms of the contract, subject to the personal representative’s obligation to administer the estate for the benefit of interested persons who are not parties to the contract, and to pay costs of administration. Trustees of a testamentary trust are interested persons for the purposes of this section. Nothing in this section relieves trustees of any duties owed to beneficiaries of trusts.
History.s. 1, ch. 74-106; s. 94, ch. 75-220; s. 1024, ch. 97-102; s. 165, ch. 2001-226.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 733.815
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 733.815.



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

MULLINS, v. MULLINS, 274 So. 3d 513 (Fla. App. Ct. 2019)

. . . prescribed interests in an estate, ... such an agreement must be in writing and comply with section 733.815 . . . See § 733.815, Fla. Stat. (2011). . . . Section 733.815, Florida Statutes (2011), provides: Subject to the rights of creditors and taxing authorities . . .

PITCHER, v. WALDO,, 159 So. 3d 422 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2015)

. . . Appellant sought relief pursuant to section 733.815, Florida Statutes (2012), which provides that interested . . .

CHILDERS, v. CLAY COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS SCIBAL ASSOCIATES,, 128 So. 3d 201 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2013)

. . . . § 733.815. . . .

E. PIERCE, v. PIERCE, 128 So. 3d 204 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2013)

. . . The Florida Probate Code has embraced this preference in section 733.815, Florida Statutes, which provides . . .

In ROSIN, P. v. P. P., 248 B.R. 625 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 1998)

. . . . § 733.815, Private agreements among distributees.) . . .

In J. LITRAS, 608 So. 2d 847 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1992)

. . . Section 733.815, Fla.Stat. (1989). . . . The trial court relied on section 733.815, Florida Statutes (1989), in denying the settlement. . . . The court found that the settlement agreement failed to comply with section 733.815, Florida Statutes . . .

HELITZER, v. HELITZER,, 761 F.2d 582 (10th Cir. 1985)

. . . . § 733.815; In re Perlmutter’s Will, 156 Misc. 571, 282 N.Y.S. 282, 287 (1935). . . .

BLATT, v. GREEN, ROSE, KAHN PIOTRKOWSKI, 456 So. 2d 949 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1984)

. . . Section 733.815 provides in pertinent part that: competent interested persons may agree among themselves . . .