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Using AI to Craft Legal Arguments
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Reversible Error: Cases where Insufficient Attorney’s Fees Awards were Remanded on Appeal
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Contingency Fee Multipliers
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Does the losing side have to pay my attorney’s fees?
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Last-Minute Estate Planning: Are Deathbed Wills Valid?
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The Slayer Statute: Beneficiary Disqualification when there is Foul Play
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Advance Directives: Documenting your Health Care Wishes in the Event you Cannot Express them Yourself
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Class Gifts: Leaving Assets to a Dynamic Group of People
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Power to Disclaim: What happens when someone inherits something they do not want?
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Establishing a Lost or Destroyed Will
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Understanding Will Revocation in Florida: A Legal Overview
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Homestead Protection
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Effective Ways to Shift Future Appreciation from a Taxable Estate – GRATs and IDGTs
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Gifting property during life vs. after death: which is better?
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Designation of Personal Representative
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Estate planning and DNA implications
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Back to school or college. Check your estate planning documents.
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Avoid Intestacy and Probate
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Your legal responsibilities as a named personal representative in estate planning documents
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Estate planning, trusts and genealogical services, what you need to know.
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Are you a “Dutiful Child”, who is a caregiver for your loved one? The Florida laws explained.
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Guardianship proceedings – learn the facts and the Florida laws
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Trust Decanting in Florida
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Cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and Death
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Do It Yourself Wills in Florida – be very cautious
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Decanting the Trust – What you need to know
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Elective share in Florida – When a wife or life partner (spouse) is not included in a Will
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Elective Share – what is it and why should you learn more about it?
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Inheriting real estate property in Florida? Here’s what you need to know
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“Step-Up in Basis”, a tax law, is it fading away? What you need to know in 2021-2022
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Guardianship 101 – What you need to know and learn
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Tax planning, Estate planning, Trust documents – Be proactive now and do not regret indecisiveness in 2021
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Handwritten Wills and the Importance of Witnesses – What you need to know because it is complicated
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President Biden’s potential move on Estate Tax – What you need to know now
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Irrevocable Trusts, Revocable Trusts – A guide to understanding in Florida laws
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Elder law, Medicaid planning and Special Needs Trusts: What happens when Medicare will not pay for long-term medical care costs?
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Enforcing a contract to create a Will is complex – read the details
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Florida Homestead Protection 101 – what to know
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Imagine having earned $59 million, being age 38 and having NO control over your money or assets
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Real property and wills – Educate yourself on the implications of Probate proceedings
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Your beloved pet “Sploot” is alive and well, so how do we keep that state of calm and relaxation?
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In Florida, if you are going through a Divorce or Family Collaborative law process, ensure to include your Estate planning and Beneficiaries
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What to know under Florida law during COVID-19 – Naming your kids as beneficiaries of life insurance policies
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Can a Beneficiary act as a Witness during a pandemic?
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COVID 19 – Quarantined, who makes medical decisions?
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Quarantined during COVID 19 – How do I get my estate planning documents notarized?
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Quarantined – take the time to review your estate planning documents, joint tenancy agreements and beneficiaries
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Part 2: The Secure Act – Look at your trust, your beneficiaries, and get it reviewed
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Part 1 – The Secure Act (the rules changed very recently for beneficiaries)
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What happens when your chosen beneficiary, heir or personal representative (PR) dies before you do?
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Lack of Testamentary capacity and undue influence – what are the legal standards?
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Four important reasons to update your estate plan and/or your trust documents
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In today’s electronic age, can you trust your Personal Representative (PR) to have control of your digital passwords?
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If you are a Personal Representative in an estate, understand the Relation Back Doctrine statute
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Beneficiaries of a Florida based trust – know the law, especially if you don’t live in Florida
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Trust Income, know the Tax laws
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Giving money to a child, a loved one, a relative or a friend – your intentions do matter
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Help mom and dad with estate planning, but know your boundaries under the law
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Paternity in Probate bench court – timing is everything, be aware
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Beneficiaries and fiduciaries, know your entitlements under the law
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Joint proprietorship of real estate and divorce, what happens when one passes away?
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Your pets, your best friend in many people’s homes. Who cares for them post death?
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The Florida Digital Assets Act
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Missing person. Now, what’s next, probate court and the impact of intestacy.
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Contest a Will.
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Florida Anti Lapse law, estate planning and potential will contest environments
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Estate planning helps to preserve the rights of our elders or special needs persons and addresses guardianship head on
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How to identify elder exploitation or breach of fiduciary responsibilities of a Power of Attorney
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Charitable trusts help to reduce estate taxes, learn more
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Florida Supreme Court brings clarity to Attorney-Fiduciary privilege (different from the attorney-client privilege)
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Bitcoin, crypto, blockchain, tokenpots, coin plus, ether pay and Estate planning in 2018
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Proactive Wills
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Our farmers are at high risk
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The power of giving and altruism in estate planning
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Arbitration and Estate Planning – Decisions made final
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Will contests in probate court, a recent Florida law update
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Lack of Testamentary Capacity, know the expectations of undue influence
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As a business owner, react or act – probate court expenses
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Elder financial exploitation, Trust litigation and Undue influence
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Voluntary and Involuntary transfers of a beneficiary’s interest(s)
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Family law implications under the 2018 Tax Bill
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2018, Moving forward with the new Tax Bill
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Guardianship, FL law explanation
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Irrevocable Trusts, one tool in an estate planning tool box
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A Will seems simple, but when executed, it can be a rocky road
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Ademption, knowing what is not part of your estate
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Legal Capacity
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Probate litigation and Attorney-client privilege
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Will Florida raise the Homestead Exemption in 2018, a reader’s guide before you vote.
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Home health care owners and operators, be smart
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Incapacity and marriage, the role of guardianship court
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If you cannot make your own healthcare decisions and have no estate plan, see the list below, as Florida will direct you
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Recent Florida Supreme Court case law update – Hess v. Patrick
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May 2017 District Court of Appeals decision impacts Alimony creditors – a blend of family law and estate planning law
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Prince, George Michael and Carrie Fisher; Estate Planning 101, what are we learning?
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Do you know an elderly neighbor who is being abused? Get help.
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Your estate and assets, make sure you know what actually counts for your beneficiaries under Florida laws
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Taxes and gifting, estate planning makes a huge difference
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Pooch and kitty cat, life’s best friends! Estate planning for pets
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Capacity and Wills: How to avoid litigation from family members, beneficiaries and creditors
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Use of Homestead Property and the impact on estate administration
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Homestead sale profits in Florida, a recent court decision
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Same Sex surviving spouses, a recent Florida law change
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Homestead protection in Florida
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Divorced?, Now Single?, New Marriage? Your written estate plan must reflect your desired intentions for beneficiaries
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A decedent dies but has unpaid child support – What happens legally?
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Elder Abuse is a crime, even subtle financial exploitation
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Getting hitched in Florida has it’s advantages inside probate
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How Pre-Nups and Probate Court engage
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Is Time really on your side when serving as a Trustee?
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Bang Bang – Pop goes the gun!
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Probate Court and Family Court collide
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Major Life Changes? Get your estate plan dusted off, reviewed and updated
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International Wills and Estate Planning
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All life’s journeys and stories eventually end, even iconic novels
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Probate, Creditors and Technology – Are you Aware?
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Guardianship Law in Florida – What’s Current? Very Important Updates
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What is your plan for the “What if” in life?
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FIRPTA – Be Aware!
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Trustee Acting Squirrely?
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Does ingesting medical based pot make you incapable of creating a will or trust?
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Settlor’s, Trustee’s and Beneficiary’s – Meet your “Jedi Knight”, Trust Protector
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B.B. King, a music legend – Undue Influence and Capacity in real life
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Personal representative designation in Last Will and Testament – Convicted Felons
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When Wills mean Business
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What Happens when one Executes a Will in Two Different Countries, with Different Beneficiaries?
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Qualifying as a Personal Representative in Florida
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Adult Adoptions as an Estate Planning Tool
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The Truth about Living Trusts
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Supplemental Needs Trusts: Providing for Your Special Needs Beneficiary While Preserving His or Her Public Benefits
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Unintended Consequences: How Not Having an Estate Plan Will Affect Prince’s Legacy
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Florida Passes the “Florida Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act”
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Challenging Estate Plans: Modification of Sumner Redstone’s Estate Plan Prompts Allegation of Mental Incapacity
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Florida Looks to Become the Preferred Destination for Family Trust Companies
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A Life Estate Explained
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Are You Widowed? You Need To Plan Your Estate Too!
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What All Realtors Should Know When Representing a Foreign Buyer
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David Bowie’s Estate Planning Guarantees Empire is Left to His Family
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New Year, New Estate Planning Tips
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One of My Relatives Passed Away, Do I Have to Pay Their Debt?
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Planning for Incapacity: Planning for When You Can No Longer Plan
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The Role of the Personal Representative in an Estate
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Valuable Estate Planning Lessons Can Be Learned from Lamar Odom’s Health Scare
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Ensuring the Validity of Your Last Will and Testament
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New Digital Estate Planning Application Demonstrates the Importance of Estate Planning
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Tom Benson’s Family Feud Highlights Avoidable Estate Planning Issues
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How Can I Challenge a Will in Florida?
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Estate Planning Is for Young Adults too
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Six Estate Planning Mistakes Made by High-Net-Worth Individuals
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Create a GRAT Before Interest Rates Rise
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Estate Planning Tips for Same-Sex Couples in the Wake of Obergefell
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May I disinherit my spouse?
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What Same-Sex Couples Should Know About Estate Planning in Florida
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Getting Remarried? Do Not Forget to Update Your Estate Planning Documents
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Creating a Valid Will in Florida
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Step-Children and Inheritance Rights
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Protecting Your Online Accounts After Death
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Why Would You Need a Revocable Living Trust in Florida?
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Tips to Avoid Common Pitfalls in Estate Planning
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What Happens to Your Facebook Profile After You Die?
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When Does Power of Attorney Terminate in Florida?
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Estate Planning Ambiguities: What Robin Williams’ will contest teaches us about creating high-value trusts
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Removing a Personal Representative in Florida
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Minimizing the Private Information Revealed in Probate Documents and Probate Proceedings
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ESTATE PLANNING FOR FOREIGN EMPLOYEES: Smoothing the Transition
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2014 LEGISLATIVE SESSION: Alignment of the Antilapse Provisions of the Floirda Trust and Probate Codes
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LONG TERM CHARITABLE GIVING: The Charitable Lead Trust
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The Reasons We Give
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Do You Have a Claim for Tortious Interference With an Expected Inheritance?
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Do Not Forget Your Digital Assets in the Cloud
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Giving Art
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CONTESTING A WILL
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Insuring Your Final Wishes Through Proper Estate Planning
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Planning for Old Age
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CS/HB 635: The Florida Legislature Updates The Florida Guardianship Law
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“Support Trusts” Under Florida Law: What’s a Trustee to Do? (Part III)
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“Support Trusts” Under Florida Law: What’s a Trustee to Do? (Part II)
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“Support Trusts” Under Florida Law: What’s a Trustee to Do? (Part I)
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The New Revolution of Trust and Estate Planning – Social Networking
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Estate Planning: Don’t Do It Alone
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CREATIVE CHARITABLE GIVING – BEYOND CASH DONATIONS
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The Blind Side: Former South Carolina Gamecock Coach’s Children Claim Undue Influence in Probate
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Switched at Execution: Don’t Let It Happen to You
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Mediating Contested Probate Matters
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Life Insurance Reality Check
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Key Requirements of Will Creation
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Parenthood from the Beyond
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Common Mistakes in Florida Wills
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Do You Know Who Your Descendants Are?
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The Consequences of Do-It-Yourself Wills
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Getting the Most Out of Homesteads in Florida
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Avoiding the Claim of Undue Influence in Florida Probate Proceedings
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Death, Taxes, and Tony Soprano
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Recognition of Foreign Judgments in Probate Proceedings
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A Surviving Spouse’s Right to the “Elective Share” in Florida
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Transferring Title of a Decedent’s Vehicle Under Florida Law
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Unfortunate Death of Real Estate Developer Can Teach Lessons for the Future
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How to Execute a Power of Attorney—Without a Signature
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In Florida, You Cannot Manipulate a Trust with an Adult Adoption
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Fiduciary Duty of the Personal Representative of an Estate
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Do Florida Courts Have Jurisdiction Over Foreign Trusts?
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DOMA’s Impact on Floridians
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Florida 5th District Court of Appeals Upholds Spendthrift Trusts as Constitutional
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Estate Planning for Same-Sex Couples Post-DOMA
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How Should an Estate Executor Manage the Clothing and Personal Effects of a Decedent in Florida?
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Did a hospital coerce a reclusive copper heiress to give away part of her $300 million dollar estate?
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Benjamin Franklin’s dire assessment of life’s certainties proves true yet again.
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Is Your Business at Risk?
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Can Miami-Dade County Legally Create the Popular “Pets’ Trust” Initiative?
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The Importance of Updating Named Beneficiaries
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Isn’t it Ironic (Don’t you think)?
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Simultaneous Death Laws in Florida
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Severing Estates by the Entirety in Florida
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United States v. Windsor Part II: The Constitutionality of DOMA
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United States v. Windsor Part I: The Case and the Court’s Jurisdiction
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Tax Considerations for Gay and Lesbian Couples Before and After DOMA
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Should Pre-Death Will Contests Be Permitted?
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Estate Planning for Florida Same Sex Couples
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A Lesson from Glenwood Gardens: Know the Policies of You Elder Care Facility
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Costs and Attorney’s Fees for Probate Proceedings under Florida Law
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Alternative Dispute Resolution in Probate
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Estate Planning and Homestead in Florida
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With Low Interest Rates for June, Now is the Time to Think About Establishing a Charitable Lead Trust
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Michael Jackson’s estate sued by former star defense witness Wade Robson nearly four years after Jackson’s Death: How the suit would be handled under Florida law, Part 2
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Michael Jackson’s estate sued by former star defense witness Wade Robson nearly four years after Jackson’s Death: How the suit would be handled under Florida law, Part 1
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Who Owns Items Bought with Money from a Joint Checking Account?
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The Rights of the Alleged Incapacitated Person
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Removing a Non-Tenant from Estate-Owned Property
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Examining Committee – Rights in Guardianship Cases
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The Procedure for Appointing a Legal Guardian
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Disclaiming an Inheritance
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Litigation Over Trust Accountings
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Who is an Heir under Florida Law?
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A Lesson from Sir Peter Ustinov: The Importance of Maintaining a Current Will
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Refusing to Appoint a Named Personal Representative
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Settlement in Guardianship Litigation
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Making Remittances to Cuban Nationals
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Florida’s Pretermitted Spouse Statute
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What Happens When Nobody Can Find Your Will
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The IRS and Your Lottery Winnings
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Planning for a Loved One with a Disability: Special Needs Trusts
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Can settling your probate case provide you with a tax break?
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How the New Investment Income Surtax Affects Estates and Trusts
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Self-Settled Trusts and Using Multiple Jurisdictions to Protect Your Assets
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Deathbed Marriages
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The New Risk of Being an Executor: Watch Out for Unpaid Taxes
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Acquisition of Property by Minors
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Florida’s Antilapse Statute
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Serving as Personal Representative of an Estate: What is a “Reasonably Ascertainable” Creditor?
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The Digital Age and Wills, Social Media and Licenses After Death.
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Supreme Court Denies Survivor Benefits to Posthumously-Conceived Florida Twins
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Tortious Interference with Inheritance
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Revocable Trusts
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Foreign Persons and Florida’s Homestead Exemption
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Removing a Personal Representative
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The Impact of FATCA on Foreign Trusts and Estates
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Trust Decanting
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Pet Trusts
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Dependent Relative Revocation
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Non-Citizen Spouses and Estate Planning
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Handwritten Wills
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Automatic Nullification of Certain Non-Probate Assets after Divorce
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Trust Modification by Beneficiaries
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Damages in Conversion and Tortious Interference with Inheritance Cases: Proving ‘Millions’ Not Enough
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Securing a Safe Deposit Box After A Relative Passes
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What if a family member passes and we can’t find the will?
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Medicaid Estate Recovery
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Stand-Alone Special Needs Trust for Children with Disabilities
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E-Z Legal Form Leads to More Legal Fees
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Including Vacation Homes in Your Estate Plan
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Legal Name Changes
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Do I need to create a trust if I already have a will?
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Notice to Creditors
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Strictly Adhering to the Terms of an Estate Planning Document
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Lottery Winners and the IRS
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Retired? How you can use a LLC and FLP in your Estate Plan
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Estate Planning with Artwork
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A Cruise Ship Accident and Death at Sea
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Estate Planning for Same Sex Couples
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Lost or Destroyed Wills
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What Control Does a Personal Representative Have Over Assets Held in a Professional Association?
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Fees For Guardianship Services
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Trustee Duties
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Who Needs a Durable Power of Attorney?
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Living Wills in Florida
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What is the proper venue for probate proceedings?
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Non-judicial Settlement Agreements for Trust Disputes in Florida
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Charitable Trusts in Florida
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Rules of Construction for Trusts and Impact of Florida Law
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Duties of a Personal Representative in Florida
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Can a spouse be unintentionally disinherited in a will in Florida? – Pretermitted Spousal Rights
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Procedures to Determine Incapacity in Florida
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Is a step-child considered a lineal descendant in Florida?
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Amendments to the Florida Probate Code
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Florida’s Simultaneous Death Law
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So what exactly is a “sound mind” in Florida?
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Abatement of Devises in a Will to Satisfy Claims Against an Estate in Florida
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Beneficiaries’ Rights to see Contents of a Will
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“Miss Me?” – Can the Estate of a Missing Person be Probated under Florida law?
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Revocation of Wills Under the Florida Probate Code
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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Referencing Separate Writings Containing Tangible Personal Property in a Will in Florida
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Can a Child be Disinherited from a Will in Florida?
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Florida’s Elective Share
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Surcharge of Personal Representative
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Access to Decedent’s Safe Deposit Box
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Payment of Expenses and Claims for Intestate Estate
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Opening an Intestate Estate
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Florida Self-Proving Wills
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Summary Administration of Wills in Florida: The Pros and Cons
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Rights and Duties of Creditors Under Florida Law
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TIME PERIOD FOR FILING AN OBJECTION TO A WILL
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Is a no-contest clause in a will enforceable in Florida?
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Methods to Attack a Will
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Compensation of a Personal Representative in Florida
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Personal Representative’s Duty to Search for Beneficiaries of an Estate
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Individual Liability of a Personal Representative in Florida
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