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The unsworn petition is unaccompanied by affidavits or
other evidence in the record which would provide substance to para-
graph 2. Not only are the St, Lucie County attorneys unidentified,
there is nothing to-establish who was ill, to what extent, or for
what period. The term "attorneys," not "attorney," is used, but
there is no explanation why-one of the attorneys could not have
performed. The bare-boned statement was simply insufficient for
the probate court to €ind good cause existed "due to illness,"
As for paragraph 3, appellee's alleged inability to "trace
certain assets in the possession of the decedent necessary to pro-
ceed" .is not any more of a legal excuse than was the delay in filing
suit because of the absence of-inventory in Exchange National Bank
of Winter Haven v. Field, 338 So.2d 889 (~la.2d DCA1976), cert. den.
346 So.2d 1248 (F1a.1977). The lack of familiarity with the Florida
Probate.Code alleged in paragraph 4 is precisely "ignorance of the ~ i
law," which was expressly rejected in In re Goldman's Estate, supra.
The order of the probate court is reversed.
.REVERSED.
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LETTS and BERAt~EK, JJ., concur.
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