Estate planning documents should be kept secure
Estate planning documents should be kept secure. Many people keep them in their safe deposit box, or other secure location. [...]
Beneficiary on your Individual Retirement Account
If you do not name a beneficiary on your individual retirement account, in most cases, the account beneficiary becomes your [...]
Who should be my personal representative or trustee?
A person named to be a personal representative under a will or a trustee of a trust should be someone [...]
Who should I choose to be my Healthcare Surrogate?
Your health care surrogate should be someone with whom you have discussed your decisions as far as end-of-life care and [...]
Who is Responsible for Handling an Estate?
Generally, the person who is appointed as the personal representative under the will of a decedent, or the next of [...]
Why have Health Directives?
Health directives are documents such as healthcare surrogate designations and living wills. Those documents are necessary to designate someone who [...]
Why is it Important to plan for Same-Sex Partners and Domestic Partners?
Property rights for married couples are set out in the Florida statutes, unlike property rights for unmarried partners, whether same-sex [...]
What Happens to my Property if I Die without a Will?
A common misconception is that if a person dies without a will, that the state of Florida will take his [...]
Transferring assets to your Revocable Living Trust
Transferring assets to your revocable living trust will not protect them from creditors if you are sued because your assets [...]