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According to the IRS, stimulus payment made to someone who died before receiving it should be returned to the government. If the payment was made to a single filer, the entire payment should be [...]

There have been a number of glitches in sending stimulus payments to Americans under the recently enacted CARES Act, including sending stimulus payments, which are intended to ease the financial [...]

Probate is defined as the process of proving a Will is valid in court and thereafter administering the estate of the decedent according to the terms of their Will. In Florida, there are two main [...]

If an individual dies intestate, it means that they passed away without having created a Will or estate plan. When someone dies without a Will or estate plan, their property passes into [...]

Probate is the legal process of proving that a Will is valid in court and administering the estate of the decedent according to the terms of their Will. If you are the personal representative of [...]

Probate proceedings can be very time consuming, make assets inaccessible for months, and involve the filing of documents and information in court that you may want to keep private. There are also [...]

Probate is the legal process following someone’s death that involves the payment of the decedent’s debts and the transfer of assets to beneficiaries. The process includes: Proving that the [...]

A big advantage of signing a Lady Bird deed is that it avoids probate of the property after you pass away. In many states, including Florida, there is a Medicaid estate recovery program that [...]

            When a divorce is finalized, a former spouse’s right to an inheritance through Florida’s intestacy laws ends.  This means that if a spouse dies without a will and their estate goes [...]

If someone in Florida dies without a will, their estate is distributed to living relatives following intestate succession laws.  In the rare case that someone dies without any relatives including [...]