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A minor beneficiary is an intended recipient of assets who is under the age of 18. People who name minor beneficiaries may be inadvertently putting their inheritance in jeopardy.
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In Florida probate terms, dying without a last will and testament is known as dying “intestate”. Most people assume that, if they die without a will in place, their next of kin or heirs will inherit their estate.
Moving to a new state means that it is time to update important documents, like your driver’s license and car registration. Among those documents should be your will or living trust. If you have moved to Florida from another state, your probably do not need to start from scratch with a whole new estate plan. […]
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…
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?
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…
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.
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.