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Category: Estate Owned Automobiles

Oh! Those Dangerous Instrumentalities: The Estate Owned Automobile

November 7, 2017Jeffrey A. Cramer Areas of Practice, Estate Owned Automobiles, Estate Planning, General Law, Probate, Probate Estate Car Accident, Estate Owned Automobile, Estate Planning Attorney, inheritance, Jacksonville probate attorney, personal representative, probate estate
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One of our first admonitions to clients seeking to become appointed personal representative of a decedent’s estate and is to secure all automobiles and not let anyone drive them.  Under Florida’s Dangerous Instrumentality Doctrine, the estate can be held vicariously liable if someone drives the car and injures others in an accident.  Once a person has been appointed personal representative and the probate case opened, the personal representative has personal responsibility for those automobiles.

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