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To: supercat
I've known of a number of people who call themselves "conservatives", and whose allies call them "conservative", who are barely--if at all--to the right of Charles Schumer. If someone calls themself my friend, does that make them so?

Frankly, I don't care. If he says he is conservative, I accept that. If it makes folks here at FR feel better to deny Greer that, then fine. Conservative, after all, seems to be a rather subjective term. I think I am conservative, but I am nothing like the nutcases that have come out of the woodwork here these past few weeks, and I'm sure they would all consider themselves conservative.

Under such circumstances, would it be legal for Judge Greer to award the decedent's entire estate to the 'heir' named on the cocktail-napkin 'will'?

I wouldn't think so, but then I don't know if your hypothetical is really hypothetical, if that is the entire sum of the information available, and what the pertinent laws of the State of Florida are concerning such areas.

598 posted on 04/09/2005 2:25:55 PM PDT by MACVSOG68
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To: MACVSOG68
I wouldn't think so, but then I don't know if your hypothetical is really hypothetical, if that is the entire sum of the information available, and what the pertinent laws of the State of Florida are concerning such areas.

If Florida laws are typical, they would basically be that if the cocktail-napkin "will" was indeed written by the decedent, the property division stated thereon is legal. If the cocktail-napkin "will" was written by someone else, it isn't.

So returning to the hypothetical scenario, if the "will" were one that most people would regard as an obvious fake, but Greer accepts the word of one 'expert' who proclaims it genuine, would it be legal for Greer to award the decedent's property on that basis?

600 posted on 04/09/2005 2:35:25 PM PDT by supercat ("Though her life has been sold for corrupt men's gold, she refuses to give up the ghost.")
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