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Attorney Sean Byrne was on the front page of the June edition of the Sarasota County Bar Association’s monthly publication The Docket, a resource of information, entertainment, and dialogue for [...]

Florida has requirements on how a fiduciary is to manage and invest the assets of the Trust that the trustee administers. Florida has adopted what is known as the “prudent investor rule,” which [...]

In this series of blog posts, we define esoteric legal terms and explain how they are used in law. “Lex loci rei sitae” is a Latin phrase literally meaning, “the law where the property is [...]

Long-term care insurance policies are not standardized from insurer to insurer, and thus the policies differ in many ways. There are, however, key provisions used across the board by Florida [...]

In 2014, the Florida Water and Land Conservation Initiative (Amendment 1) was passed overwhelmingly with 74.96% of the vote. Upon passage by the voters, the Florida Constitution now regulates [...]

Congratulations are in order for our own attorney Sean Byrne, who has recently been named a Florida Super Lawyer by the Super Lawyers company. The process of selection is multi-faceted, with each [...]

These are rare, but this scenario can occur: Florida has a “slayer statute” to address it.  Should a named beneficiary kill the testator, Florida law prohibits the killer from inheriting the [...]

As defined by the Internal Revenue Service, the gift tax is one, “…on the transfer of property by one individual to another while receiving nothing, or less than full value, in return.” In [...]

Under Florida law, a court order is required to access and remove the contents of a safety deposit box of the deceased, unless the box is jointly owned. This can create a hurdle for the loved [...]