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
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Florida’s Principal & Income Act gets an update
If you’re representing a personal representative or trustee in a complicated estate or trust
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Effective July 1, 2012, Florida now has post-divorce automatic nullification statute for beneficiary-designated non-probate assets such as life insurance, annuities, pay-on-death accounts, and retirement planning accounts
In 1951 Florida enacted a statute automatically cutting divorced spouses out of
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New legislation clarifies when Rule 1.525’s 30-day deadline for attorney’s fee motions apply to contested probate, guardianship and trust proceedings
If, when and how Civ. Pro. Rule 1.525, the rule setting a
Florida’s ILIT Trustee Protection Statute: 736.0902
Irrevocable life insurance trusts or “ILIT’s” are a mainstay of high end
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