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According to the National Council on Aging, approximately 1 in 10 Americans above the age of 60 have experienced some form of elder abuse. So what should you do if you suspect a senior citizen is [...]

In Florida, the qualifications to serve as personal representative of an estate, as set forth by the Florida Probate Code, are as follows: -The personal representative has never been convicted of [...]

The Senior Safe Act is a new federal law intended to fight financial elder abuse by promoting the reporting of suspected elder abuse by financial institutions. Prior to the passage of this law, [...]

Though there are exceptions to every rule, generally there are several reasons not to title a vehicle in the name of a Trust. For example: -If your vehicle is involved in an accident and you get [...]

If a testator wants to distribute assets to multiple children in different amounts, he/she might want to prevent each beneficiary from knowing what the others are getting in order to mitigate [...]

In June 2018, a federal judge blocked the Kentucky Medicaid plan which would have required many recipients to work or volunteer in order to stay covered. While the plan included exemptions for [...]

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 [...]