Heiskell v. Morris

Who owns -the family homestead is the question in this internecine quarrel among six adult siblings whose father, lawyer John Morris,' Jr., and mother transferred sizable property holdings contemporaneously with the creation of a family trust agreement in the early 1980s. Three decades later, a spat over ownership of the property resulted in the trial court concluding,. under, the authority of section 689.07(1), Florida Statutes (2004), that two of the siblings, named on the property’s deeds as co-trustees and listed as beneficiaries in the trust agreement, owned the property outright in fee…