Legal Opinion
Christine Swistock Flegal, Amy Swistock, Peggy S. Keeshin and Nancy Swistock Snyder v. Guardianship of Peter R. Swistock, Sr.
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided July 15, 2015No. 4D13-4410PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMay, J.
Due process and a family dispute over stock shares are at the center of this appeal. Four sisters appeal orders entered in a guardianship. They argue that their property, stock shares, was taken without due process. We agree in part and reverse in part.
The father and ward had five daughters and two sons. Four daughters lived out-of-state; the fifth daughter lived in Florida, as did the father. A dispute arose between the four out-of-state daughters and their father over 39,668 shares in Omega Bank. When First National Bank (“FNB”) purchased Omega Bank, it issued new share certificates to the…
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