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The Inheritance Imagination

By Juan C. Antúnez on October 1, 2025

“Wills are uncanny and electric documents. They lie dormant for years and…

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FY 2023-24 Probate Court Filing Statistics: How busy are our probate judges?

By Juan C. Antúnez on February 24, 2025

If you make your living in and around our probate courts you’ll…

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Creative Strategies for Defending Cases Involving Tortious Interference With Inheritance Expectation Claims

By Juan C. Antúnez on February 23, 2025

Dan Seigel is an experienced trusts and estates litigator who just published…

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The Difficulty of Crossing a Field

By Juan C. Antúnez on December 27, 2024

I’m a long-time subscriber of Miami Judge Milton Hirsch’s thoughtfully written “Constitutional…

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Florida’s courts are all in on the supremacy of text principle

By Juan C. Antúnez on May 27, 2024

If you make your living writing wills and trusts, or administering them…

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FY 2020-21 Probate Court Filing Statistics: How busy are our probate judges?

By Juan C. Antúnez on January 1, 2023

If you make your living in and around our probate courts you’ll…

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A Challenging Inheritance: The Fate of Mark Twain’s Will

By Juan C. Antúnez on December 28, 2022
A portrait of Mark Twain taken by A. F. Bradley in New York, 1907.

There have been numerous books and essays written about Mark Twain’s…
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Change the Culture, Change the System + Judge Warner’s Ten Tips on Civility and Professionalism

By Juan C. Antúnez on December 21, 2022

I’m a lifer. After more than two decades in the trenches, it’s…

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The Florida Style Manual

By Juan C. Antúnez on November 22, 2022

If you spend any time writing or reading legal briefs, it won’t…
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Want to get better at screening estate cases? Read “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll’s Will: A Tale of Testamentary Capacity”

By Juan C. Antúnez on September 6, 2022

Knowing when to say “no” is one of the most difficult —…

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