Caring for a Loved One With Dementia? Four Tips You Can Use

Caring for a Loved One With Dementia? Four Tips You Can Use

Did you know that it is very important for your loved one to create an estate plan now that he or she has been diagnosed with dementia? Meeting now, while your loved one still has capacity for making decisions, is crucial to estate planning. Take a minute to visit our website, this Thursday, to learn more about the importance of estate planning if your loved one has dementia. Do you care for a loved one in your home? Has your loved one just...
Three Common Mistakes Made When Trying To Avoid Probate

Three Common Mistakes Made When Trying To Avoid Probate

Are you a private person? Do you hope to keep your estate private when you pass away? How can you do that? Have you recently created your last will and testament, but unsure whether your estate may still have to be probated?  First, having a last will and testament in place is excellent. Unfortunately, the fact that you have a will does not, by itself, allow your estate to avoid probate. Here are three common mistakes that are made when...
Why Your Parents Need a Durable Power of Attorney

Why Your Parents Need a Durable Power of Attorney

Do you know if your parents have created an estate plan, including a durable power of attorney? Right now is the perfect time for this question. Even though your parents are healthy now, what would happen if one or both of them were to suddenly become incapacitated? For example, one or both might lose their mental or physical capacity due to an accident, a sudden decline in health, or the inevitable factors that come as they age. Be aware that...
Can You Use Different Trust Types in Estate Planning?

Can You Use Different Trust Types in Estate Planning?

Did you know that trusts are one of the estate planning tools created for the management of assets, both during your life and after your death? In fact, there are several types of trusts to use in estate planning. However, in this blog we will divide trusts into a couple of categories to make them easier to understand. In the simplest terms, trusts are either revocable or irrevocable. This means they can either be changed or revoked after they...
10 Questions to Use When Updating Your Estate Plan in the New Year

10 Questions to Use When Updating Your Estate Plan in the New Year

The new year has begun, January is underway, are your resolutions completed? We know many Floridians are focusing on how they will reach the resolutions they set. Did your resolutions focus on work or health or family or all three? Did you include creating a Florida estate plan in your resolutions? We want you to know that we believe that one of the most important New Year’s resolutions you can make this year is to create your Florida estate...