(1) A deed or mortgage of homestead realty owned by an unmarried person may be executed by virtue of a power of attorney executed in the same manner as a deed.
(2) A deed or mortgage of homestead realty owned by a married person, or owned as an estate by the entirety, may be executed by virtue of a power of attorney executed solely by one spouse to the other, or solely by one spouse or both spouses to a third party, provided the power of attorney is executed in the same manner as a deed. Nothing in this section shall be construed as dispensing with the requirement that husband and wife join in the conveyance or mortgage of homestead realty, but the joinder may be accomplished through the exercise of a power of attorney.
History.—s. 1, ch. 71-27.
Structure Florida Statutes
Title XL - Real and Personal Property
Chapter 689 - Conveyances of Land and Declarations of Trust
689.01 - How Real Estate Conveyed.
689.02 - Form of Warranty Deed Prescribed.
689.041 - Curative Procedure for Scrivener’s Errors in Deeds.
689.045 - Conveyances to or by Partnership.
689.05 - How Declarations of Trust Proved.
689.06 - How Trust Estate Conveyed.
689.071 - Florida Land Trust Act.
689.073 - Powers Conferred on Trustee in Recorded Instrument.
689.075 - Inter Vivos Trusts; Powers Retained by Settlor.
689.08 - Fines and Common Recoveries.
689.09 - Deeds Under Statute of Uses.
689.10 - Words of Limitation and the Words “Fee Simple” Dispensed With.
689.11 - Conveyances Between Husband and Wife Direct; Homestead.
689.111 - Conveyances of Homestead; Power of Attorney.
689.115 - Estate by the Entirety in Mortgage Made or Assigned to Husband and Wife.
689.12 - How State Lands Conveyed for Educational Purposes.
689.15 - Estates by Survivorship.
689.17 - Rule in Shelley’s Case Abolished.
689.175 - Worthier Title Doctrine Abolished.
689.18 - Reverter or Forfeiture Provisions, Limitations; Exceptions.
689.19 - Variances of Names in Recorded Instruments.
689.20 - Limitation on Use of Word “minerals.”
689.225 - Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities.
689.261 - Sale of Residential Property; Disclosure of Ad Valorem Taxes to Prospective Purchaser.
689.27 - Termination by Servicemember of Agreement to Purchase Real Property.
689.28 - Prohibition Against Transfer Fee Covenants.
689.29 - Disclosure of Subsurface Rights to Prospective Purchaser.
689.301 - Disclosure of Known Defects in Sanitary Sewer Laterals to Prospective Purchaser.