Most of us would agree that most divorced spouses don’t want their
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2016 legislative news: Florida real estate = Florida law; elective share claims (they’re floors, not ceilings); attorney’s fees in breach of trust cases
In terms of legislation, the big news for 2016 was Florida’s adoption
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2016 legislative news: A person’s ashes are not assets of his probate estate
In 2014 the 4th DCA grappled with a tragic case I wrote
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2016 legislative news: The Florida Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act
A new law is making it easier for Florida personal representatives to
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2015 legislative news: Florida overhauls its elder guardianship system
Most of the 2015 legislative changes to our Probate and Trust Codes
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2015 Florida trust and estate legislative roundup
This was another busy year on the legislative front. Most of the
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Florida Family Trust Company Act
As reported by the WSJ in an article entitled Matters of Trust:
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2014 Florida trust and estate legislative roundup
Driven partly by inter-state competition for a bigger slice of the lucrative
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Effective October 1, 2013, if a lawyer improperly writes himself into his client’s will, the bequest is automatically void as a matter of law under new F.S. 732.806
2013 legislative news: New legislation codifies (expands?) FL long-arm jurisdiction over non-residents in trust litigation
According to census data, Florida is the largest recipient of state-to-state