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Date Created: 2024-01-10 16:02:49.110568+00
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Third District Court of Appeal
                              State of Florida

                      Opinion filed January 10, 2024.
      Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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                              No. 3D23-478
                       Lower Tribunal No. 21-2070

                         Melissa Azrack, etc.,
                                 Appellant,

                                     vs.

             In Re: Estate of Malcolm Joel Dorman,
                                 Appellees.

     An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Jose L.
Fernandez, Judge.

      Barry S. Franklin & Associates, P.A. and Barry S. Franklin, for
appellant.

     Kluger, Kaplan, Silverman, Katzen and Levine, P.L., Bruce A.
Katzken, and Lauren S. Fallick; Samson Appellate Law and Daniel M.
Samson, for appellees.

Before EMAS, FERNANDEZ and SCALES, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.
Affirmed. See § 742.10(1), Fla. Stat. (2023) (“[A] notarized voluntary

acknowledgment of paternity or voluntary acknowledgment of paternity . . .

creates a rebuttable presumption, as defined by s. 90.304, of paternity and is

subject to the right of any signatory to rescind the acknowledgment within 60

days after the date the acknowledgment was signed . . . .”); Giller v. Giller,

190 So. 3d 666, 669 (Fla. 3d DCA 2016) (“Personal Representatives are duly

appointed legal representatives of the Estate, with the capacity to bring an

action on the Estate's behalf and charged with the obligation to take

possession     of   [the    decedent’s]     property    for   purposes      of

administration.”); Magwood v. Tate, 835 So. 2d 1241, 1243 (Fla. 4th DCA

2003) (“[A] personal representative of an estate stands in the shoes of the

decedent, so a person has no greater rights against the estate than the

person would have had against the decedent during his lifetime.”).

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