Vargas v. Vargas

GREEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a final judgment entered in an interpleader action wherein the trial court found that appellant, Dr. Alvaro Vargas, had failed to meet his burden of proving that his deceased mother (Maria Vargas) had revoked a Totten Trust account in favor of her granddaughters, the appel-lees. We reverse.

In or about 1986, Maria Vargas established six Totten Trust accounts at the now defunct Miami Savings Bank.1 Four of the accounts designated the appellees as beneficiaries while the remaining two designated the appellant as beneficiary. Subsequently, on May 18, 1988,…