Does a Florida trust beneficiary have six months or four years to sue a trustee for breach of fiduciary duty? If you are involved in a trust lawsuit West Palm Beach, or if you’re a beneficiary of a trust and other beneficiaries are suing the trustee, you need to know whether the statute of limitation is four years for breach of fiduciary duty or six months pursuant to a trust disclosure document. A May 4,2016 Fourth DCA opinion, regarding a Florida trust appeal, specifically discusses the statute of limitations that may protect a trustee of a Florida trust and also may help or hurt the beneficiary of a trust in Florida.

Are you a Florida Trustee being sued for breach of fiduciary duty?  What can you do? What defenses are available in a Florida trust lawsuit? Should you hire a trust litigator Boca Raton? To see a FREE VIDEO about TRUST CONTESTS, or a trust challenge click HERE.  What is res judicata? What is laches? You will want to read Woodward v. Woodward to find out.

If you are involved in Florida trust litigation where you are suing the trustee for breach of fiduciary duty and failure to provide an accounting, you may want to read the May 4,2016 Fourth DCA opinion in Woodward v. Woodward. You will definitely want to read this case if the trustee you are suing in yourFlorida trust lawsuit raises the defenses of laches and/or res judicata.

West Palm Beach, Florida probate lawyer, John Pankauski, is honored to be cited in one of the country’s top legal writing on trusts. The Restatement (Third) of Trusts is a legal treatise or authority and commentary on trust law, which is used by appellate courts, academics and Florida trust lawyers. Being referred to in the Restatement of Trusts is an honor and a recognition of the accomplishment of this Florida trust litigation lawyer.

How can I avoid the problems that Prince’s estate is facing? Why should I bother having aFlorida will or trust? Isn’t it expensive to hire a Florida probate attorneyto draft a will or trust for me? Everyone knows that Prince died unexpectedly and without a will. Therefore, intestacy laws will govern who inherits his estate. As we are learning from Prince’s estate, and as probate litigators West Palm Beach can tell you, dying without a will or trust may not be the best idea.

Are you dealing with a Florida guardianship case involving the deficient mental capacity of a person making or changing a Florida will? What if you are asked to testify in a Florida Guardianship trial? How do you prepare? Sumner Redstone, former chairman of CBS and Viacom, is in the middle of a mental competency suit and, according to an article dated May 2,2016, he will be required to testify. 

Everyone knows that Prince died unexpectedly and without a will. Therefore, intestacy laws will govern who inherits his estate. But why is a trust company being appointed by a probate judge in Minnesota to oversee his estate? When should you hire a Florida probate lawyer or trust company to handle your Florida trust or estate?

In Florida probate court, can attorney’s fees be awarded against me if my claim has bad merit? How can I make sure that my claim is supported by material facts? When might I have to pay attorney’s fees for the other side?  

In Florida probate litigation, what are estate taxes? What are inheritance taxes? Does Florida even have estate or inheritance taxes?

Does Florida law apply when serving a corporation or someone who is in a different country? How do you serve them? If you are defending a personal representative of a Palm Beach estate, or maybe a beneficiary of a Florida probate lawyer, was the defendant served with process properly? What should my Florida trust and estates lawyer know about properly serving people outside of the Unites States? Consider reading this January 30,2015 case from Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal about an invalid service of process by a Florida party. Although this appeal about service of process is not a probate case, a lot can be learned from this commercial litigation.