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Estate planning is an important process that allows you to ensure that your loved ones are looked after once you are gone. One of the most important estate planning instruments is a will. This document can facilitate the distribution of your assets, your debt...
Florida law sets up two methods for estate administration – summary and formal. The circumstances of the estate determine which of these are possible. Typically, people who are handling the estate administration process for a loved one who passed away will want to get...
Once the divorce becomes inevitable, there are several issues that you will need to deal with. These include property division, child and spousal support and child custody arrangement. One of the issues divorcing parties tend to overlook during those turbulent times...
When a loved one dies, what you probably want to do is take time out to mourn them. Yet, a death in the family can create a lot of extra work, both legal and physical. While the bulk of the legal work should fall to the person named to execute the estate, other family...
A trust is an important estate planning tool that can give you peace of mind knowing that your assets will go to the right people when you pass on. At the very basic, a trust is a legal arrangement where the settlor transfers certain assets to the trustee to hold for...
Your estate plan should include instructions for all of your most valuable assets. The home where you live may be worth more than anything else you possess, making it a crucial asset to handle properly when planning your estate. Given the value of a home, testators...
When parents own cabins or vacation homes, or other types of second properties, they will often leave them to their heirs jointly. For instance, they may have four children and decide to split the ownership of the cabin between all four equally, so that they all own...
Once you sit down to create a comprehensive estate plan addressing your health care needs and legacy wishes, you might assume that you never have to consider those issues again. People often feel a false sense of security about their legacies because they drafted a...
One of the most critical parts of the probate process is simply determining who is entitled to which assets. This is often laid out in the will and other sorts of documents, but that doesn't mean there is never any confusion. For instance, there could be two...
It’s one thing for a family member to leave you a piece of jewelry you’ll never wear. It’s quite another for them to leave you a significant asset like a home or even a car that you don’t need and don’t want to deal with. Maybe you believe someone else in your family...