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Florida Estate Planning Starter Kit
A free PDF covering the five documents every Florida adult needs, will vs trust, the homestead, beneficiary designations, and what to gather before your consult.
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Long-form guides to the questions clients ask most often. Built to answer the question before you need to call.
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Florida Executor's Kit
A free, plain-English PDF for Florida personal representatives: the first steps after a death, which probate applies, the homestead trap, the creditor clock, and when you need an attorney.
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Florida Trust Administration Kit
A free kit for successor trustees: the first steps after a death, the notices Florida law requires, and how to avoid personal liability.
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Broward County Probate Court
Where Broward probate is filed, what the Clerk charges, how e-filing works, when letters issue, and the homestead step that drives the local timeline.
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How Long Does Probate Take in Broward County?
A month-by-month schedule: 8 to 12 months for formal administration, 4 to 8 weeks for summary, and the specific things that add months.
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Contesting a Will in Florida
The four grounds for challenging a Florida will, the very short filing deadline, why no-contest clauses do not bind, and what evidence actually wins.
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Florida Trust Administration
What a successor trustee must do under Chapter 736: the notice of trust, informing and accounting to beneficiaries, handling the settlor’s creditors, and where personal liability attaches.
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Florida Injunctions and TROs
The four-part test, the bond requirement, what a TRO without notice takes, and why delay is the fastest way to lose emergency relief.
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Shareholder Derivative Claims in Florida
Direct versus derivative, the written demand and 90-day wait, standing, LLC member actions, and the two-sided fee risk.
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What Does Probate Cost in Florida?
Every fee itemized: the filing fee, publication, personal representative compensation, and the statutory attorney fee schedule, with worked numbers for a $500,000 estate.
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Revocable Trust vs Will in Florida
A side-by-side comparison of Florida estate-planning tools, costs, privacy, probate avoidance, and when you need both.
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Blended Family Estate Planning in Florida
Second marriages and stepchildren: how the elective share, homestead, and intestacy break simple plans, and the trust structures that hold up in court.
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Snowbird Estate Planning in Florida
Establishing Florida residency, what happens to property in two states, and how to avoid a second probate with a trust, lady bird deed, or LLC.
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Guardianship in Florida
What happens when a parent loses capacity with no documents in place: the court process, realistic costs, and the two signatures that usually make guardianship unnecessary.
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Online Wills vs a Florida Estate Attorney
Are LegalZoom and other DIY wills valid in Florida? Where online services work, where they fail (homestead, elective share, trust funding), and when an attorney is worth it.
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How to Choose an Estate Planning Attorney
Nine questions to ask any Florida estate firm before you sign: the fee in writing, who drafts, who defends the plan in court, and which fees are flat versus quoted.
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Florida Probate Timeline
A realistic month-by-month walk-through of formal administration, with the statutes that drive each step and where estates actually get stuck.
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LLC vs S-Corp vs C-Corp in Florida
How Florida founders should choose an entity, taxes, liability, compliance, and the point where an S-Corp election pays for itself.
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How to Form an LLC in Florida
Ten steps from picking a name to filing an S-election on time, with the statutes that matter and the ones self-filers usually miss.
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Florida Non-Compete Enforcement (§ 542.335)
How Florida courts analyze restrictive covenants, the legitimate-business-interest test, reasonableness, and what actually gets enforced.
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Breach of Contract in Florida
Elements, damages measures, statute of limitations, and prevailing-party fees, with the ROI analysis we run before filing.
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