Your estate plan is a comprehensive set of instructions about what you want to do with your assets when you pass away. The plan is subject to compliance with applicable laws, so you must ensure that yours is fully enforceable so that your loved ones can count on it...
As we move through life, we all encounter events that have far-reaching impacts we may not see at first. If we do not pay attention to significant life events when they occur, this may cause complications later on, for ourselves and for others. One of the best ways to...
Many of our regular Brevard County legal blog readers know that Florida does not have an estate tax. For some residents (especially those who have significant assets), that tax’s absence is one of the reasons they moved to the Sunshine State, or why they never moved...
Which would your family rather do: spend the day at Cocoa Riverfront Park or discuss estate planning? Tour the Brevard Museum of History and Natural Science or discuss the inevitability of mortality? The answers are probably pretty obvious – we would all prefer...
Starting next year, you will be able to create and sign a Florida will online and then store it in the cloud. While it is certainly going to be more convenient to create a will online while you’re at home, the real question is whether or not an electronic will is...
When estate planning, you have to answer many questions about what will happen upon your death. It's never easy, but when you address concerns now it will make things easier on your loved ones in the future.When deciding whom to choose as the executor of your will,...
Because we regularly share information here in our Brevard County legal blog about estate planning, probate, wills, trusts, asset protection and related topics, we know full well the challenges of not only making those subjects interesting, but in making people...
Probate is the legal process in which your property is distributed after your death. Your estate executor (the person you designated to manage your estate) will typically initiate the process of legally transferring your assets to beneficiaries after a Florida probate...
Although divorce is more common now than it was in previous generations, some people still really mean it when they say "until death do us part." There are couples out there who will remain married indefinitely even though they have a lasting antipathy toward one...
If you and your significant other have just had your first child, your hands are full. There a long list of important things for new moms and dads to take care of. But one of those things that should be on that long list for new Brevard County parents is estate...