Protecting Your Family's Future

Month: February 2015

Adult guardianship can be a contentious affair. When a person is unable to take care of his or her own affairs anymore, and this power is given to someone else, there can be understandable feelings of frustration and bitterness on the part of the ward. Further, family...

Whether one is the personal representative of someone else's estate or is in the midst of preparing his or her own estate plan, one issue that will need to be dealt with is creditors. Given the realities of modern life and the economic situation many people find...

We touched previously in this space on talk that the Florida Legislature may consider a law giving people more control over who can access their online assets when they die or become incapacitated. That possibility has been given more concrete form in a bill...

About a month ago, this blog discussed the issue of "living wills" in Florida. To review, a living will, also known as an advance health care directive, is a legal document that specifies a person's wishes with regard to the medical intervention techniques that he or...