Health Care Surrogates and Advance Directives in Miami, FL
Miami Q&A on Florida advance directives: health care surrogate, living will, and how Chapter 765 lets you decide care before a crisis.
July 3, 2025
Miami Q&A on Florida advance directives: health care surrogate, living will, and how Chapter 765 lets you decide care before a crisis.
Miami parents’ top estate planning questions answered: guardians for kids, Florida homestead, wills under FL law, and protecting young families.
The essential estate planning documents every Florida adult needs: will, durable power of attorney, healthcare directives, and trusts. A Miami attorney’s guide.
A Miami Q&A on Florida special needs trusts: keep Medicaid and SSI eligibility while providing for a loved one with a disability.
Moved to Florida, divorced, or remarried? Learn exactly how to update your estate plan, what Florida law changes, and the deadlines that matter.
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.
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 Florida residents and snowbirds use gifting, trusts, and federal exemptions to reduce estate tax. Practical strategies from a Miami estate planning attorney.
Miami Q&A on digital assets in your estate plan: photos, crypto, email, and accounts, and how Florida law lets your fiduciary access them.
A Miami Q&A on gifting to reduce federal estate tax: annual exclusion, education and medical gifts, and giving while honoring Florida homestead.
A Miami Q&A on Florida’s durable power of attorney under Chapter 709: what it covers, why it must be signed now, and how to avoid guardianship.
A Miami estate attorney explains how to avoid Florida probate with trusts, beneficiary designations, joint titling, and lady bird deeds.
Miami estate planning Q&A on beneficiary designations: why they override your will under Florida law and the mistakes that derail Miami-Dade estates.
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.
How to designate a health care surrogate and create a living will in Florida under Chapter 765 — built for Miami retirees and seasonal snowbird residents.
Miami business owners: answers on succession, FL revocable trusts, durable POA, probate avoidance, and keeping your company running.
Florida incapacity planning explained for retirees and snowbirds: durable power of attorney, health care surrogate, living will, and avoiding guardianship.
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
Avoid the most common Florida estate planning mistakes retirees and snowbirds make, from homestead errors to out-of-state wills. Miami attorney guidance.
