Kathleen Steele v. Commissioner of Social Security

Supreme Court of Florida ____________ No. SC2022-1342 ____________ KATHLEEN STEELE, Appellant, vs. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY, Appellee. February 15, 2024 GROSSHANS, J. In this case, we are presented with two certified questions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit about the meaning of a Florida statute that speaks to the inheritance rights of “[a] child conceived from the eggs or sperm of a person or persons who died before the transfer of their eggs, sperm, or preembryos to a woman’s body.” § 742.17(4), Fla. Stat. (2019). The statute says that such children can only…