For #Florida estate planning attorneys, and #Florida trust and estate lawyers, the “Super Bowl” of seminars for them is the #Heckerling Institute. http://www.law.miami.edu/heckerling/hotel_info.php In fact, the #Heckerling Institute has become for #trust and estate attorneys nationwide, what the #computer electronics show in Las Vegas, #CES, is to people in the #technology world.
Last night , while most people from #Florida were busy watching the #2014 People’s Choice Awards, some #Florida probate litigators were reading recent opinions from #Florida guardianship courts. You probably had more fun with the #2014 People’s Choice Awards, and cheering for #Big Bang, #Castle, and #Beast and #Vampire Diaries. And, this morning, while you may be reading about #Cameron Diaz, or #Drea de Matteo coming back in her #Wendy Pane role on #Sons of Anarchy, there is some #Florida guardianship business of note.
The legal winds of change are blowing across America in 2014. January provides a fast start for this new year with cutting-edge legal issues. What is this all mean for #Florida inheritance rights? And how is everything possibly connected?
Florida trusts hold a lot of money. I’ve never seen any estimates, or studies, but anyone’s best guess is that Florida trusts hold billions and billions of dollars.
Just days ago, a Florida appeals court reviewing a Florida divorce case made a very important ruling — MAJOR ! — affecting Florida divorce law and Florida prenuptial agreements. This is a major ruling regarding Florida family law, an attempt to challenge a prenuptial agreement, and a setback for Florida husbands and wives who want a prenuptial agreement validated.
Did someone promise to leave an inheritance to you in Florida? If so, you better get it in writing. Oral promises to make a Florida will, or to leave an inheritance under Florida law are invalid.
Were you disinherited from a Florida estate ? Were you cut out from a Florida will ?
Did someone promise to leave an inheritance to you in Florida? If so, you better get it in writing. Oral promises to make a Florida will, or to leave an inheritance under Florida law are invalid.
Experienced Florida trial lawyers, and those whose practice is limited to litigation in Florida, have all come across clients who want a judge removed. What does it take to remove a Florida trial judge? Does it make sense to do that? And is it really in the client’s best interests to seek to disqualify a Florida trial judge?
When can you disqualify a Florida lawyer ? If you are involved in Florida litigation, and believe that the other side’s attorney may be a witness at your trial, consider a recent ruling from a Florida appeals court about disqualifying a Florida trial lawyer.