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No, it is against the law for nursing homes to ban visitors from seeing their loved ones, unless the visitor is deemed dangerous to the other residents of the nursing home. According to the [...]

We turn to Florida Statute §736.0103 for the legal definition of “settlor”: “a person, including a testator, who creates or contributes property to a Trust.” Florida Statute §731.201 defines [...]

Florida’s spendthrift provision protects Trustees and beneficiaries from creditors seeking to collect on a beneficiary’s debts and from the beneficiaries themselves, pledging their interest in [...]

The Florida Supreme Court case which has set the standard for determining undue influence in Will disputes is the seminal case of In re: Estate of Carpenter, 253 So.2d 697 (Fla. 1971), which held [...]

In Florida, the formal probate process, when not drawn out by disputed claims or other complications, generally takes at least four months. Though this may seem long, our system is more concise [...]

In Florida, Comprehensive Assessment and Review for Long-Term Care Services (CARES) is the federally-mandated screening system for nursing home applicants. It is required by law for any person [...]

As is the answer with many legal questions, the answer here is: it depends. When a person named as a beneficiary of a Will dies before the person who signed the Will, you should review the terms [...]

A “pour-over” Will is usually created by individuals who hold most, if not all, of their assets in a Trust. The reason one might maintain such a document is to account for overlooked assets in [...]