Does a Change in Trustees Limit Your Rights to Sue as a Beneficiary in Florida?

Are you a beneficiary of the family trust? Are you appraised of, everything that the trustee is doing with trust property (i.e. trust funds)? You may have grounds to seek an accounting but time is of the essence in Florida probate court. Do you know your rights?

Florida Beneficiary Rights in Probate Court

• What rights do beneficiaries of family trusts have in Florida probate court?
• Probate attorneys Florida know that large trust companies or the elusive family trustee may pretend like trust funds belong to them.
• Technically the trustee is the legal owner of that property but there are strings attached.
• Those strings are the fiduciary duties that that trustee owes to the beneficiaries.
• Florida probate lawyers know that a trustee who refuses to respect those duties could be liable for a lawsuit in Florida probate court.
• Do you have valid grounds for a fiduciary lawsuit in Florida because of improper trustee actions?
• How can you be sure?
• Probate attorneys Florida know there is no magic formula to find out.
• You may want to speak to estate attorneys Florida before you lose the right to bring a claim.
• How long do you have as a beneficiary to bring a lawsuit about the family trust and family trustee?
• Does a change in trustee limit your rights to sue the old trustee?
• Florida probate courts do not respect those that wait too long.

Estate of Maddi

• This was an interesting case out of California but it may have information relevant for your estate litigation in Florida.
• Do you know?
• Because the lesson in this case is one that all probate attorneys Florida know.
• Time is of the essence.
• Failure to properly plead a cause of action in the allotted amount of time could mean waiving it.
• What does that mean?
• It means you will never get a change to file that Florida probate lawsuit.

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