Stilwell v. Estate of Crosby

ORFINGER, Judge.

This appeal is from an order approving their final accounting and discharging the personal representatives of the estate, over the objections of the beneficiaries. We conclude that the objections to the final accounting were well taken and should have been sustained, and reverse the order appealed from.

The beneficiaries first object to a payment of $17,000 by the co-personal representative William J. Crosby II to himself in the absence of a claim filed by him as required by section 733.702, Florida Statutes (1985) which provides:(1)No claim or demand against the decedent’s…