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In re Estate of Coukos

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District
Feb 9, 2007
947 So. 2d 1290 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2007)

Opinion

No. 2D06-2327.

February 9, 2007.

Appeal from the Circuit Court, Hillsborough County, Susan Sexton, J.

Gordon D. Fisher and Joseph C. Wasch, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Appellants.

Gregory M. McCoskey of Glenn Rasmussen Fogarty Hooker, P.A., Tampa, for Appellee.


Appellants, the grandchildren and great-grand-children of Harry L. Coukos, challenge the trial court's dismissal with prejudice of their petition for revocation of probate, in which they challenged Mr. Coukos' 2004 will. Because Appellants lacked standing to challenge the will, we affirm. See Wehrheim v. Golden Pond Assisted Living Facility, 905 So.2d 1002, 1006 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005) ("[A] petitioner may not be an interested person in revocation and removal proceedings if previous and presumptively valid wills have been discovered that, similar to the current will, do not include the petitioner as a beneficiary of the estate."). However, we do so without prejudice to any right Appellants may have to challenge the trust agreement.

Affirmed.

VILLANTI and LaROSE, JJ., Concur.


Summaries of

In re Estate of Coukos

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District
Feb 9, 2007
947 So. 2d 1290 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2007)
Case details for

In re Estate of Coukos

Case Details

Full title:In re: ESTATE OF Harry L. COUKOS. Eleni D. Coukos-Semmel, Stephanie Coukos…

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District

Date published: Feb 9, 2007

Citations

947 So. 2d 1290 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2007)