Planning for Incapacity, Not Just Death, in Florida
A Florida attorney explains incapacity planning: durable powers of attorney, health care surrogates, living wills, and avoiding guardianship.
March 13, 2026
A Florida attorney explains incapacity planning: durable powers of attorney, health care surrogates, living wills, and avoiding guardianship.
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.
Miami parents: how to name a guardian for your minor children under Florida law so a court honors your wishes and your kids are protected.
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 Lady Bird (enhanced life estate) deeds let you avoid probate, keep control, and protect your homestead. A North Miami estate attorney explains.
How Florida’s 30% elective share protects a surviving spouse, what counts in the elective estate, and how professionals can plan around it.
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.
Trust or will for your Miami family? A plain-English Florida comparison of probate, cost, and control to help you choose with confidence.
North Miami draws people from all over the world: families building a life on a green card, retirees splitting time between Florida and a home
What Florida intestacy law decides if you die without a will, explained for Miami families, including homestead, who inherits, and how probate works.
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.
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 Miami family’s guide to when to revisit your Florida estate plan, from new babies to homestead moves, so your documents always reflect real life.
How to update your estate plan after divorce, marriage, or relocating to Florida—wills, trusts, beneficiaries, and key Florida statutes explained.
When do irrevocable trusts make sense in Florida? A Miami estate attorney explains asset protection, Medicaid, tax, and the tradeoffs of giving up control.
A Florida estate attorney explains how to avoid probate with trusts, beneficiary designations, and titling so your estate passes privately and fast.
How Florida business owners plan their estates and succession: buy-sell agreements, trusts, Chapter 605 LLC rules, and avoiding probate of a company.
How Florida homestead law protects the family home from creditors and probate, and how physicians and professionals plan around its devise restrictions.
A reassuring guide for Miami families: Florida has no state estate tax, and how the federal estate tax may affect your plan.
Florida advance directives let your Miami family honor your medical wishes. Learn about health care surrogates, living wills, and HIPAA access.
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.
How to fund a revocable living trust correctly in Florida: retitling assets, deeds, beneficiary forms, and the mistakes physicians and professionals must avoid.
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.
Avoid the costly Florida estate planning mistakes that trip up physicians and professionals—homestead, funding, beneficiaries, and probate pitfalls explained.
How blended families in Florida can plan an estate that protects a surviving spouse and children from a prior marriage. Trusts, elective share, homestead.
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.
Miami families: thoughtful lifetime gifting can shrink a taxable estate and help loved ones now. Florida-focused strategies explained.
How charitable giving and trusts work in a Florida estate plan: CRTs, CLTs, donor-advised funds, tax benefits, and statutes for professionals and physicians.
A durable power of attorney protects your Miami family if you can’t act for yourself. Here’s how Florida’s Chapter 709 rules really work.
How Florida professionals and physicians use spendthrift trusts, staggered distributions, and trustees to protect an inheritance for young or impulsive heirs.