Opinion
3D23-0933
08-07-2024
Paul V. Wessling, et al., Appellants, v. Boston Private Bank and Trust Company, etc., et al., Appellees.
Keller Landsberg, P.A., and Maria N. Vernace, and Raymond L. Robin (Ft. Lauderdale), for appellant John F. Beatty, III; George Elias, Jr., for appellants Paul V. Wessling, and Alexis Elisabeth Wessling. Gonzalez, Shenkman & Buckstein, P.L., and Brian D. Buckstein, and Benjamin P. Shenkman, and Elizabeth M. Fernandez (Wellington), for appellee Boston Private Bank and Trust Company, as Trustee of the Helen B. Wessling Discretionary Trust; Golden Glasko & Assoc., P.A., and William H. Glasko, for appellee Barbara Beatty.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Lower Tribunal No. 22-2928 Jorge E. Cueto, Judge.
Keller Landsberg, P.A., and Maria N. Vernace, and Raymond L. Robin (Ft. Lauderdale), for appellant John F. Beatty, III; George Elias, Jr., for appellants Paul V. Wessling, and Alexis Elisabeth Wessling.
Gonzalez, Shenkman & Buckstein, P.L., and Brian D. Buckstein, and Benjamin P. Shenkman, and Elizabeth M. Fernandez (Wellington), for appellee Boston Private Bank and Trust Company, as Trustee of the Helen B. Wessling Discretionary Trust; Golden Glasko & Assoc., P.A., and William H. Glasko, for appellee Barbara Beatty.
Before LOGUE, C.J., and LINDSEY, and BOKOR, JJ.
PER CURIAM
Affirmed. See Jaris v. Tucker, 414 So.2d 1164, 1166 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982) (holding that death itself terminates a marriage); McKendree v. McKendree, 139 So.2d 173, 174 (Fla. 1st DCA 1962) ("[T]he marital relation, being a purely personal one, is terminated by the death of either of the parties . . . ." (quoting Price v. Price, 153 So. 904, 905 (Fla. 1934))); Steinhardt v. Steinhardt, 445 So.2d 352, 357 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984) ("A resulting trust . . . arises . . . where an express trust is fully performed without exhausting the trust estate ....").