February 15, 2016
Special Needs Trusts: How Can They Help Your Loved Ones?
Ensuring that a child has a secure financial future is a big challenge all by itself. The issue is even scarier to think about when a child has special needs. In these cases, parents often wonder who will care for their child and how the child’s…
December 7, 2015
Dying Without a Will: Letting Tallahassee Decide Who Inherits from You
If you die without a will, then the law calls that dying “intestate” (as opposed to dying with a will, which is called “testate”). Many people don’t bother getting a will, because they figure it doesn’t matter: if they die, their spouse gets everything, and if their spouse has already died by that time, their kids get everything split equally. Easy, right?
November 25, 2015
Talking Turkey about Estate Planning
Ensuring that a child has a secure financial future is a big challenge all by itself. The issue is even scarier to think about when a child has special needs. In these cases, parents often wonder who will care for their child and how the child’s…
October 15, 2015
What assets have to go through probate?
Probate is the court process by which a deceased person’s assets are transferred to the people she left her assets to in her will, or if she died without a will, transferred to her next of kin. For a more detailed explanation about probate, please click here.
October 13, 2015
What exactly is “probate,” anyway?
One thing I’ve seen clients have a lot of confusion about is the probate process. It’s one of those things that almost everyone has heard of, but not many people know what it means for them personally.