DENISE LEAVITT
v.
MALLORY MOLTER
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An interested person waives objections to the omission of assets from a final accounting and inventory by failing to file timely objections within 30 days as required by Florida Probate Rule 5.401(a).
[1] An interested person waives the right to object to the omission of assets from a probate estate's final accounting and inventory by failing to timely file objections with…
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Florida Probate Rule 5.401(a) establishing the requirement for timely objections
Denise Leavitt objected to the final accounting and inventory filed by Mallory Molter as personal representative of Danny E. Molter's estate, and soug…
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KELLY, Judge.
Denise Leavitt appeals from the probate court's order overruling her objections to the final accounting and inventory filed by Mallory Molter as personal representative of the estate of Danny E. Molter and the order striking what she characterized as a petition for declaratory judgment, to quiet title, to construe the will,
and to remove and surcharge the personal representative. Ms. Molter, as personal representative, cross-appeals from the portion of the order approving the accounting and inventory but requiring her to file a supplement. We affirm without comment the issues raised in Ms. Leavitt's appeal. As to the cross-appeal, we reverse the portion of the probate court's order requiring the personal representative to file a supplement to the inventory and accounting.
In the cross-appeal, Ms. Molter argues that the probate court erred when it required the estate to file a supplement to its final accounting and inventory to include the decedent's collection of firearms as estate assets. We agree with Ms. Molter that
Ms. Leavitt waived this issue because she did not timely object to the omission of the firearms. Florida Probate Rule 5.401(a) states that "[a]n interested person may object to the petition for discharge or final accounting within 30 days after the service of the later of the petition or final accounting on that interested person." Because an objection was not timely filed it was waived. Accordingly, it was error for the probate court to order the supplement. On remand, the probate court should strike that provision of its order. In all other respects the order is affirmed.
Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
SLEET and ROTHSTEIN-YOUAKIM, JJ., Concur.