Special Needs Trusts: Protecting a Loved One in Miami
How a special needs trust helps Miami families provide for a loved one with a disability without risking essential benefits.
November 2, 2025
How a special needs trust helps Miami families provide for a loved one with a disability without risking essential benefits.
How Florida’s 30% elective share protects a surviving spouse, what counts in the elective estate, and how professionals can plan around it.
A clear Florida guide to making a valid will under section 732.502, written for Miami families who want their wishes honored and loved ones protected.
Florida has no state estate tax, but high earners still face the 40% federal tax. Learn 2026 exemptions and gifting strategies to protect your estate.
A plain-language guide to Florida revocable living trusts for Miami families, covering probate avoidance, control, homestead, and what a trust can and cannot do.
A reassuring guide for Miami families: Florida has no state estate tax, and how the federal estate tax may affect your plan.
How to fund a revocable living trust correctly in Florida: retitling assets, deeds, beneficiary forms, and the mistakes physicians and professionals must avoid.
A Florida estate attorney explains durable power of attorney under Chapter 709: how it works, what it can do, and how physicians and professionals should set one up.
When and why to review your Florida estate plan: life events, law changes, and a North Miami attorney’s checklist for physicians and professionals.
A plain-English look at Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts for Miami families, how ILITs work in Florida, and when they make sense for your legacy.
How Florida homestead law protects the family home from creditors and probate, and how physicians and professionals plan around its devise restrictions.
Miami families: how Florida Medicaid’s 5-year look-back works for long-term care and why early planning protects your home and savings.
Why online estate planning forms often miss Florida law, and how a Miami attorney helps your family avoid probate surprises and homestead pitfalls.
How Florida health care surrogates and living wills work under Ch. 765 — who decides for you, what each document covers, and how professionals avoid mistakes.
Common Florida power of attorney mistakes that hurt Miami families, from non-durable forms to missing authority, and how to get yours right under Chapter 709.
How Florida professionals and physicians plan for digital assets and online accounts under Chapter 740, the Florida Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act.
When do irrevocable trusts make sense in Florida? A Miami estate attorney explains asset protection, Medicaid, tax, and the tradeoffs of giving up control.
How Florida couples in second marriages coordinate prenups, wills, trusts, and elective share rules to protect children and a new spouse alike.
How Florida business owners plan their estates and succession: buy-sell agreements, trusts, Chapter 605 LLC rules, and avoiding probate of a company.
How special needs trusts protect a disabled beneficiary in Florida without losing SSI or Medicaid. First-party vs. third-party, payback rules, and ABLE accounts.
How blended families in Florida can plan an estate that protects a surviving spouse and children from a prior marriage. Trusts, elective share, homestead.
Florida advance directives let your Miami family honor your medical wishes. Learn about health care surrogates, living wills, and HIPAA access.
How to update your estate plan after divorce, marriage, or relocating to Florida—wills, trusts, beneficiaries, and key Florida statutes explained.
Practical, Florida-specific ways Miami families can keep an estate out of probate court, from trusts to Lady Bird deeds to beneficiary designations.
How joint ownership and right of survivorship can quietly wreck a Florida estate plan for physicians and professionals, and how to avoid the common traps.
A Florida attorney explains incapacity planning: durable powers of attorney, health care surrogates, living wills, and avoiding guardianship.
An irrevocable trust isn’t for everyone. A Miami family-first look at when this Florida tool truly protects your loved ones and your home.
How a pour-over will works with a Florida living trust, what Statute 732.513 requires, and why professionals and physicians still need both documents.
Avoid the costly Florida estate planning mistakes that trip up physicians and professionals—homestead, funding, beneficiaries, and probate pitfalls explained.
How Florida professionals name guardians for minor children: preneed designation under Fla. Stat. 744.3046, guardian of person vs. property, and common mistakes.