Updating Your Estate Plan After Divorce, Marriage, or a Move to Florida
Divorced, remarried, or just moved to Florida? Here’s exactly how and why to update your estate plan, with the Florida statutes that affect business owners.
Estate Planning
Divorced, remarried, or just moved to Florida? Here’s exactly how and why to update your estate plan, with the Florida statutes that affect business owners.
How to name a guardian for your minor children in a Florida estate plan, why it matters for business owners, and the statutes that govern the choice.
How Florida health care surrogates and living wills work, the statutes behind them, and why business owners need both. Plain-English attorney guidance.
How trust administration works in Florida after the grantor dies: trustee duties, the 60-day notice, creditor claims, and succession for business owners.
When do irrevocable trusts make sense in Florida? A Miami estate planning attorney explains asset protection, Medicaid, taxes, and business succession uses.
How to properly fund a revocable trust in Florida, including titling real estate, LLC interests, and accounts to avoid probate. Miami estate planning guidance.
How Florida business owners use charitable trusts, CRTs, and CLTs to give to causes, cut taxes, and protect succession. Practical Miami estate planning guidance.
How Florida’s 30% elective share protects a surviving spouse, what counts in the elective estate, and how business owners can plan around it.
A Florida attorney’s guide to estate planning and business succession for owners in Miami—buy-sell agreements, LLC transfers, trusts, and tax planning.
When and why to review your Florida estate plan: key life events, statute changes, and a Miami attorney’s checklist for business owners and succession.
Miami is a city built by newcomers. If you and your family have recently put down roots here while a green card, work visa, or
Learn how to avoid probate in Florida with revocable trusts, beneficiary designations, and titling strategies built for business owners and families.
How Florida Lady Bird (enhanced life estate) deeds avoid probate, keep control, and protect homestead — a Miami estate planning attorney’s guide.
A Florida estate planning attorney explains how to plan for incapacity, not just death, using a durable power of attorney, health care surrogate, and living will.
A Miami estate planning attorney explains the core estate planning documents every Florida adult needs: will, durable POA, health care surrogate, living will and trusts.
How Medicaid asset protection planning works in Florida: the look-back rule, exempt assets, irrevocable trusts, and what business owners should do first.
How Florida homestead law protects the family home from creditors and forced sale, plus the descent rules every estate plan must account for.
Beneficiary designations on accounts and policies override your will in Florida. Learn how they work, where they trip up business owners, and how to coordinate them.
How special needs trusts work in Florida to protect a disabled beneficiary’s SSI and Medicaid. First-party vs. third-party trusts, funding, and trustee duties.
A Florida attorney’s guide to estate planning for blended families: elective share, homestead, trusts, and how to protect both your spouse and your kids.
How Florida trusts, spendthrift clauses, and staged distributions protect an inheritance for young or financially impulsive heirs. A Miami attorney explains.
Florida revocable living trust vs. will: how each works, what avoids probate, costs, and which fits your family or business. A Miami estate attorney explains.
A Florida attorney explains the durable power of attorney under Chapter 709: how it works, signing rules, agent powers, and why business owners need one.
Avoid the most common Florida estate planning mistakes—from probate traps to homestead rules and business succession gaps. Practical guidance for Miami owners.
Estate planning for snowbirds and dual-state residents: how Florida domicile, homestead, and probate rules protect your estate. Miami attorney guidance.
How Florida residents and business owners use gifting strategies to reduce federal estate tax exposure. No state estate tax, but federal rules still apply.
How a pour-over will works with a Florida living trust under F.S. 732.513 — the safety net for business owners and succession planning in Miami.
How Florida business owners can plan for digital assets and online accounts under FUFADA. Practical estate planning guidance from a Florida attorney.