Wills & Trusts

If you drive north along the coast of Florida from Brevard County, you will arrive in Jacksonville in about three hours. Our state's most populous city is the home of a generous couple who decided to pay it forward.Though the couple has no children, they have...

There are many good reasons why Brevard County residents visit estate planning attorneys. Some people have just had a child or are expecting an addition to their family, so they want to update a will or estate plan that will protect the new family member. Others have...

Harper Lee wrote one of the great American novels, upon which a classic film was based. Despite the critical acclaim and commercial success of "To Kill a Mockingbird," there are many lingering questions about the reclusive novelist who died two years ago at 89.People...

The problem with estate planning is that if it is neglected, it can come back and haunt the people you love. And if the plans are not clear, the same problem will exist after you are gone: those you love will pay the price."People think, 'Oh, I have a simple life,'...

He melted clocks and exploded worlds, bodies and ideas of what art could and could not be. From his art to his clothes to his moustache, everything about surrealist painter Salvador Dali stimulated the senses.If you drive west of Brevard County for a couple of hours,...

When she died at age 73, her name was as unknown to the public as her black and white photographs of the people on the streets of Chicago. Today, Vivian Maier is widely hailed in the art world as a brilliant photographer and artist whose talents were unappreciated...

When people sit down to plan a gifting strategy, they have the entire world to pick from, of course. But we tend to choose to give to people and places and organizations close to us.While most people making estate plans leave some assets to their children and other...

That small leak in the roof leaves a little wet spot on a ceiling. It's not a big deal, you might think, until the day the ceiling collapses and the real damage to your house is revealed. It might have cost a couple hundred dollars to have that little leak fixed, but...

No matter what people think of the circumstances under which baseball star Jose Fernandez died last year, there is little doubt that everyone agrees that it is tragic that his three-month-old daughter never even got to meet her father.Fernandez was killed in a...

We create estate plans to express our wishes for how our personal property should be distributed when we pass. This also includes making sure that the people we care for will be taken care of if we are no longer able to. For special needs children and people who...