Complex Legal Challenges
If a person dies and leaves their house to more than one adult child, what happens if the children cannot agree on whether to sell or keep the property? In the past, if the children could not agree, the only viable solution was for a partition action to be filed...
If you’re ever entered into a contract, one provision that you may have seen is one requiring that any disputes involving the contract must be resolved through arbitration. In some cases, but certainly not all, arbitration can be less protracted and less expensive...
For most of our clients who have minor children, if asked what matters most in life, they respond “our kids.” If you have minor children, would you agree with this? There’s something special about the relationship between a parent and his or her children—especially...
If you've accumulated a lot of assets in Florida, you probably want to make sure that your assets will take care of your loved ones long after your death. However, inheriting a lot of money all at once isn't always in your loved ones' best interest. Maybe they're on...
In Florida and throughout the United States, distracted driving is an ongoing problem. This is true despite campaigns to encourage drivers to put their devices down and pay attention to the road. Even with increasingly harsh penalties if a driver is cited, failure to...
Parents with children who have disabilities such as autism, cerebral palsy, or Down syndrome, among others, will face a dilemma when those children become adults at age 18. The parents will no longer have authority or power to act on behalf of those adult children....
In our probate practice, we are often asked this question of whether the Personal Representative needs an attorney in a formal probate in Florida. [A formal probate is a full-blown probate that typically applies when the estate--not including the homestead--exceeds...
Florida residents may be able to receive financial compensation when they have been injured by a defective product. Companies that make or sell these products can be held liable because these companies have an obligation to their customers to sell safe products. This...
Not all families look the same in Florida. Some are more traditional while others are non-traditional with a single parent, blended family or same sex parents. No matter how a family looks like, estate planning is important just the same; as it designates one wishes...
In order to probate the estate of a deceased person, one of the necessary criteria to be proven is that the person is, in fact, deceased. In most instances, establishing this is not a problem if you have an authenticated copy of the death certificate. This is usually...