O'Keefe v. Burchett

COVINGTON, Judge.

The appellants challenge a probate court order that denies their application for the recognition of a Montana judgment. The judgment sought to be recognized approves the assignment of the appellants’ incapacitated sibling’s interest in their father’s Florida estate. We reverse.

The controversy herein arises- from the same basic facts as those underlying O’Keefe v. O’Keefe, 833 So.2d 157 (Fla. 2d DCA 2002). Specifically, on September 5, 1996, the decedent, Michael A. O’Keefe, an orthopedic surgeon, died from massive' injuries he suffered in a plane crash in Montana. At the…