Legal Opinion
Rickard v. McKesson
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided December 27, 2000No. 4D00-507PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
774 So.2d 838 (2000)
Sylvia RICKARD, Appellant,
v.
Gordon McKESSON, Appellee.
No. 4D00-507.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
December 27, 2000.
John M. Jorgensen and Kevin M. Wagner of Scott, Harris, Bryan, Barra & Jorgensen, Palm Beach Gardens, for appellant.
Michael H. Gora of Hudgson, Russ, Andrews, Woods & Goodyear, LLP, Boca Raton, for appellee.
KLEIN, J.
Donald Blackwell, who was eighty-eight years old and childless, adopted seventy-two year old Gordon McKesson in 1994. Blackwell was the beneficiary of a trust and, if he had died childless, the trust remainder would have gone…
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