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Estate planning in Florida follows several critical steps to allocate your assets based on your intentions, minimizing legal complications among your loved ones. While planning for your family’s future, you may come across some details that push you to decide to...
Family circumstances are often what motivate people to create an estate plan. Parents worry about providing for their children, and people going through a divorce want to avoid passing property or personal authority to their former spouse. For many people, the only...
Many individuals in Volusia County put off or avoid estate planning due to misconceptions about its complexity and necessity. This hesitation can stem from various myths surrounding the process. Understanding the truth behind these myths can help you understand why...
Advance directives are important for anyone looking to take control of their future medical care. In Florida, mental health care directives offer peace of mind and ensure your family respects your wishes during a crisis. What are advance directives? Advance directives...
When was the last time you made your estate plan? If it’s been three to five years, then your estate plan may be outdated. You may need to revise your estate plan to include new assets and investments. This may also mean you need to name new beneficiaries. However,...
When an elderly parent passes away, adult children are sometimes concerned about debt. Maybe it was an unexpected passing, so they know that their parent hasn’t taken care of things like auto loans, mortgage loans or credit card payments. But even if it was expected,...
Every person of sound mind and legal age has the fundamental right of self-determination. It is your basic human right to choose what kind of health care or treatment you want to receive and to refuse it when you disagree with the health care provider’s...
Everyone is entitled to make an estate plan once they reach the age of majority at 18. Provided they are of sound enough mental condition to know what they are doing, then it’s something they should definitely do as soon as possible. So, why is it that, according to...
Your estate will change when you divorce. You may have sold items such as the house you shared with your spouse and divided other assets between you. You need to update your estate plan to reflect this so that should you die tomorrow, the executor will not get an...
Being called upon to execute someone’s estate can come as a bit of a shock. While you agreed to it, that does not mean you ever expected to have to do it, or that you have prepared. It’s likely that you only now begin to realize exactly what it involves and how much...