In legal action that could have fallen from the pages of a soap opera script, Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Bertila Soto recently sided with a widowed husband and daughter ruling on, among other issues, the final decision about who gets to be the executor of a million-dollar estate.

Florida’s so-called “slayer statue” was at the center of the civil probate matter concerning the death of Tania Cintron, a Miami business owner whose husband, John Sr. and the couple’s daughter, Emily, were accused by two of the Cintron’s other children of having a hand in her death.

Kluger Kaplan’s Bruce Katzen, who leads the firm’s Probate, Trust & Estates practice group, along with attorneys Ryan Bollman and Madeleine Gross, represented John Sr. who in addition to remaining the executor of the estate was cleared of any wrongdoing following Judge Soto’s decision.

Read the full story on the case and ruling via the Daily Business Review