Protecting Your Family's Future

Month: July 2014

It can be heart-wrenching to contemplate a scenario in which one's children are left without their parents' protection and guidance. However, smart Florida residents are aware that planning for a possible future for their kids that does not include themselves is...

Florida residents are, no doubt, fully aware of the "digital revolution." Many people's online lives rival their "real lives" in scope and intimacy. As many Internet users know, there are myriad ways to communicate, store and share through email, photo services, and...

Perhaps the most important thing any Florida resident should do when estate planning is to write and properly execute a will. Without a valid will, a person's estate passes to relatives according to state law. A valid will directs the court on how to distribute the...

When the news discusses the subject of adult guardianship, it is usually to report on someone taking advantage of an older person who can no longer care for him- or herself. While these types of abuses do need to be exposed and, as this blog has previously reported,...

Residents of Florida may be aware that various types of assets come with forms that must be filled out to designate to whom the holder wishes the asset to go on the occasion of the holder's death. What they may not know, however, is that those forms can take...