Rose v. Sonson

WELLS, Judge.

In this probate action, Stephen C. Rose, the putative child of the decedent Stephen Sonson, appeals from a final order granting the co-personal representatives of the Sonson estate’s motion to dismiss with prejudice Rose’s amended counter-petition for paternity. We affirm for three reasons: first, because by the time Rose’s petition was filed, his paternity claim had already been extinguished by section 95.11(3)(b) of the Florida Statute (1986), the applicable statute of limitations; second, because the 2009 amendment to section 732.108(2)(b) of the Florida statutes, which…