What it means
When an intestate estate descends to collateral kindred — siblings, aunts and uncles, cousins; relatives who are neither ancestors nor descendants — §732.105 adjusts the shares by blood. A relative of the half blood inherits half as much as a relative of the whole blood taking in the same group.
The discount exists only in the mix: if all the takers are of the half blood, they take whole parts. And it applies only to collateral kindred — the decedent's own descendants are never discounted.
- Applies only when property descends to collateral kindred — siblings, uncles and aunts, cousins — never to the decedent's descendants.
- Mixed group: half-blood relatives take a half share; whole-blood relatives of the same degree take a full share.
- All half blood: everyone takes whole parts — the discount disappears.
- The common collision: a decedent survived by full siblings and half-siblings — same rung of §732.103, different shares.
How it plays out
This statute mostly surfaces in sibling estates: no spouse, no children, no parents, and a mix of full and half brothers and sisters. The math is unit-counting — a whole-blood sibling counts two units, a half-blood sibling one, and the estate divides by the total. We run that calculation early and show the work, because "half of what my brother gets" lands badly when nobody saw the statute coming.
Where this shows up
Pages on this site where § 732.105 does real work:
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