A new law is making it easier for Florida personal representatives to access digital data—such as email, photos and social-media postings—after the account holder dies. It’s called the Florida …
Most of the 2015 legislative changes to our Probate and Trust Codes were rolled into House Bill 343, which I reported on here. This blog post is all about …
This was another busy year on the legislative front. Most of the changes to …
As reported here by the WSJ, the über wealthy …
If you’re working with an irrevocable trust that needs fixing for some reason and the trust agreement includes an “absolute” …
Driven partly by inter-state competition …
Effective October 1, 2013, we now have F.S. 732.806, a new statute effectively codifying existing ethics Rule 4-1.8(c) as part of our probate code, and making a violation of this ethics rule an automatic basis for voiding any part …
According to census data, Florida is the largest recipient of state-to-state migration in the U.S. Internationally, Florida remains the top state for international home buyers. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that multi-jurisdictional estates are …
If you’re representing a personal representative or trustee in a complicated estate or trust administration case, the "who gets what" question won’t be easy to answer. No surprise there. What may be surprising, especially to lawyers, is how large a role Florida’s …
