The forty-nine dollar will you bought online last summer is probably going to cost your family thousands of dollars they did not need to spend. Sometimes tens of thousands. That is the part the legal forms websites do not put in their marketing materials. I have probated a lot of these. After forty years of […]
One of the most common questions I hear is whether a will has to be notarized to be valid. The short answer in Florida is no. A will does not have to be notarized to be legally valid. What it must have, under Florida law, is the proper execution: the testator must sign the will […]
Florida’s Probate Code protects family members who appear to have been unintentionally left out of a will because of events that happened after the document was signed. These protections live in the pretermitted spouse and pretermitted child statutes and they can reshape an otherwise tidy estate plan. A pretermitted spouse is a person who marries […]
An Enhanced Life Estate Deed, commonly referred to as a Lady Bird Deed, is an advantageous legal instrument that automatically transfers real property to a designated beneficiary upon the owner’s death. This deed allows the owner to maintain full control over the property during their lifetime while avoiding the need for probate to transfer ownership […]
