Estate Planning When You Are Single in Miami: Questions You Should Be Asking
Single in Miami? Answers on who inherits without a will, FL intestacy, durable POA, health surrogate, and protecting your wishes.
March 28, 2026
Single in Miami? Answers on who inherits without a will, FL intestacy, durable POA, health surrogate, and protecting your wishes.
Miami business owners: answers on succession, FL revocable trusts, durable POA, probate avoidance, and keeping your company running.
Moved to Florida, divorced, or remarried? Learn exactly how to update your estate plan, what Florida law changes, and the deadlines that matter.
Worried about Miami probate? A Q&A on Florida tools to skip court: revocable trusts, Lady Bird deeds, beneficiary designations and homestead.
A Miami estate attorney explains how to avoid Florida probate with trusts, beneficiary designations, joint titling, and lady bird deeds.
Why Miami Immigrant Business Owners Need Both an Estate Plan and Immigration Counsel
A Miami Q&A on estate tax: Florida has no estate or inheritance tax, but the federal estate tax and portability still matter for some families.
How special needs trusts protect a disabled beneficiary’s Medicaid and SSI in Florida. First-party vs. third-party SNTs, payback rules, and Miami planning tips.
How pour-over wills work with a Florida living trust, why snowbirds need both, the Fla. Stat. 732.513 rules, and probate pitfalls to avoid.
How blended families in Florida can plan estates to protect a current spouse and children from a prior marriage. Trusts, elective share, homestead and more.
How to include digital assets and online accounts in your Florida estate plan under Chapter 740. A guide for Miami retirees and snowbirds.
A Miami Q&A on joint ownership pitfalls: how adding a co-owner can backfire under Florida law, expose homestead, and undercut your estate plan.
Miami Q&A on charitable giving in your estate plan: bequests, beneficiary gifts, and trusts under Florida law, with no state estate tax to navigate.
Snowbirds with a Miami home: answers on FL residency, homestead, avoiding dual probate, and why Florida law favors your estate plan.
How Florida residents and snowbirds use gifting, trusts, and federal exemptions to reduce estate tax. Practical strategies from a Miami estate planning attorney.
Avoid the most common Florida estate planning mistakes retirees and snowbirds make, from homestead errors to out-of-state wills. Miami attorney guidance.
A Miami Q&A on gifting to reduce federal estate tax: annual exclusion, education and medical gifts, and giving while honoring Florida homestead.
Miami Q&A on Florida advance directives: health care surrogate, living will, and how Chapter 765 lets you decide care before a crisis.
How Florida homestead law protects the family home, why deeds and trusts can backfire, and how Miami estate plans keep the house in the family.
A Florida living trust keeps your estate out of public probate records. Learn how privacy works for Miami retirees and snowbirds, plus what it can’t hide.
Miami parents’ top estate planning questions answered: guardians for kids, Florida homestead, wills under FL law, and protecting young families.
How Florida trust administration works after the grantor dies: trustee duties, the 60-day notice, creditor claims, taxes, and timelines for snowbirds.
Miami is a city built by newcomers. Many of the small businesses that line Brickell, Doral, Sunny Isles, and Little Havana were founded by immigrants
How to fund a revocable living trust correctly in Florida: re-titling homes, accounts, and investments so your Miami estate actually avoids probate.
A Miami Q&A on Florida special needs trusts: keep Medicaid and SSI eligibility while providing for a loved one with a disability.
A Miami parents’ Q&A on naming a guardian in Florida: how to choose, why a will matters, and how courts decide.
Joint ownership with survivorship can wreck a Florida estate plan. A Miami attorney explains the pitfalls for retirees and snowbirds, and how to avoid them.
A Miami estate attorney’s guide to succession and estate planning for Florida business owners: buy-sell agreements, trusts, LLCs, taxes, and probate.
How Lady Bird (enhanced life estate) deeds work in Florida, who should use one, and how snowbirds and retirees use them to skip probate on a home.
A Miami Q&A on Florida’s Medicaid 5-year look-back: how transfers trigger penalties and what planning options remain.
