{"id":136,"date":"2014-08-07T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:30:32","slug":"can-anyone-be-a-personal-representative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/can-anyone-be-a-personal-representative\/","title":{"rendered":"Can anyone be a Personal Representative?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In order to qualify as a personal representative, an individual must be a resident of Florida, or a sibling, spouse, parent, child, or other close relative of the decedent. If the individual is not a Florida resident, and is not closely related to the decedent, he or she cannot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/what-is-the-role-of-a-personal-representative\/\" title=\"What is the Role of a Personal Representative?\">serve as a personal representative<\/a>. Any trust company that is incorporated under Florida law, or a bank that is qualified to exercise fiduciary powers in Florida, can serve as a personal representative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to qualify as a personal representative, an individual must be a resident of Florida, or a sibling, spouse, parent, child, or other close relative of the decedent. If the individual is not a Florida resident, and is not closely related to the decedent, he or she cannot serve as a personal representative. Any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-is","tag-personal-representative"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delandattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}