What it means
The chapter's last section is one sentence of housekeeping: no act taken under Chapter 740 is valid to affect a person's obligation to deposit the will of a decedent as required under §732.901.
Finding the will through digital access — in the decedent's email, cloud storage, or an online vault — changes nothing about what happens next. Under §732.901 the custodian of a will must deposit it with the clerk of court within 10 days after learning the testator has died. The section was added in 2019 by chapter 2019-71, Florida's electronic-legal-documents act, to make that explicit.
- Nothing done under Chapter 740 affects the duty to deposit a will under §732.901.
- §732.901 requires the will's custodian to deposit it with the clerk within 10 days after learning of the death.
- Added by chapter 2019-71, Laws of Florida — the 2019 act that also created Florida's electronic-wills framework.
How it plays out
Wills turn up in inboxes and cloud drives more often every year. When a §740.006 or §740.007 request surfaces one, the deposit duty under §732.901 still controls: the original goes to the clerk, promptly. We treat that as the first deadline of any administration where the will was found digitally — the statute exists precisely so that access under Chapter 740 never becomes a reason the will stays in someone's files.
Where this shows up
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