Probate

If your spouse passes away and you owned real property with your spouse as tenant by the entirety, you need to clear the title to your real estate so it is owned by you alone as the surviving [...]

Florida statutes allow for the creation of pet trusts which can be used to designate who will take care of your pet and leave funds necessary to do so.  The trust would appoint a care-taker and a [...]

In Florida, a personal representative is compensated either in accordance with the desires of the decedent as laid out in their estate planning documents or based on the presumed reasonable fees [...]

Florida law does not recognize “no-contest” clauses written into wills or trusts, which means they are unenforceable in Florida courts.  No-contest clauses are written to dissuade beneficiaries [...]

After you are served a notice of administration regarding a will, you have 3 months to contest the contents or validity of the will in the state of Florida.  The objections to a will can be [...]

In Florida, if you are named a beneficiary in a will, you have the right to view the entire document and be notified of distributions of assets through probate procedures.  This right to see the [...]

Florida has laws that protect high net worth elderly individuals from exploitation through “deathbed” marriages.  Deathbed marriages occur when an elderly, sometimes high net worth, individual [...]

After a person dies, the original copy of their will must be submitted to the court.  If the original will cannot be found, the Florida Probate court requires that the contents of the will must [...]

If you have a will that will be subject to the probate process, the executor of your will must prove that the will is valid to the probate court.  Unless the will is “self proved” the witnesses [...]

When putting together your estate plan, consider how laws in different states or countries will apply as you pass your vacation home property to your beneficiaries.  If you own real property in a [...]