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When you have more than one child, you may need to work extra hard on your Florida estate plan to help ensure fairness and reduce the chances of your children fighting with one another over their inheritance. Inheritance conflicts have the potential to do permanent...
Do you have a child who is financially irresponsible? If so, a spendthrift trust may be just the solution you are looking for to protect him or her from himself or herself as well as from his or her creditors. Florida authorizes spendthrift trusts under Section...
Watching a parent age is never easy, and it may prove even more difficult if your parent is experiencing dementia or becoming otherwise unable to manage his or her own affairs. To help protect your aging parent, you may consider establishing a Florida guardianship....
Anyone who wishes to protect their assets, interests and loved ones after their death should look into proper estate planning methods. Since Florida recognizes both heterosexual and same-sex marriages equally, the estate planning process for all spouses looks similar....
Creating a trust can be of great benefit to your family or a cause you are passionate about, provided that there is a trustee to manage the trust assets until the time comes to distribute them. Even if your trustee is young and in good health, an unforeseen event such...
Most people who have guardians or conservators have a genuine need. Most people who seek guardianships or conservatorships have sincere concerns about their would-be wards. Nevertheless, as recent headlines dramatically attest, sometimes guardians and conservators...
An executor holds a lot of responsibility and shoulders many duties in their management of an estate plan. To that end, it is important to pick the right person for the job. But in order to do that, someone must know exactly what duties an executor performs. Tasks of...
After writing an estate plan, many people think that the job is done. However, estate plan maintenance and management continues from the moment an estate plan gets created, to the moment of its creator's death and even beyond. An important part of this process is to...
Probate is a process often associated with lengthy proceedings and large expenses. This is not always the case, but people believe it because there is a lot of confusion surrounding probate. Proceedings also have the potential to be complex (though again, this is not...
If you want to make changes to your estate plan because you recently became a grandparent or you have multiple grandchildren and want to include them in your estate plan while setting up a will or trust, you need to take various factors into consideration. It is...
