Two trustee clients of the Pankauski Law Firm PLLC recently won an evidentiary hearing on a trustees’ motion for attorneys fees in Palm Beach County, Florida.
Two trustee clients of the Pankauski Law Firm PLLC recently won an evidentiary hearing on a trustees’ motion for attorneys fees in Palm Beach County, Florida.
A Florida trustee has a duty to invest prudently. We all know this. Florida trust law, like most states, has a prudent investor rule. The domestic, US, stock market has been on a tear, with most of the indices up over 20% year to date.
Did someone you know use a Florida power of attorney to take someone’s assets or money? Was a Florida power of attorney mis-used, and were Palm Beach bank accounts, Miami brokerage accounts, and Aventura financial accounts re-titled or taken from you or someone you love?
Are you owed money from a Florida resident who just passed away? If so, enforce your rights as a creditor of the Florida estate and don’t make the same mistake a plaintiff in federal court in Florida just made. Serve the right person!
Are you involved in a Florida estate? Did somebody just passed away in Florida, and you’re wondering what’s going on, and what’s happening with the estate?
Disinherited? Is there a will that cuts you out? Disinherits you? Maybe gives you less than a previous will does? You have your suspicions about the Florida will that was filed with the court.
Florida guardianship litigation is increasing. Are you involved in a contested guardianship dispute? In Florida, when a person is believed to be unable to handle his or her own affairs, a guardianship may be appropriate. Probate courts in Florida, from Stuart, Florida to Miami Dade County, Florida, handle all guardianship matters and the guardianship judge often determines what personal rights an incapacitated person is capable of exercising, and which rights they are not able to exercise.
Who will control Mom’s estate and all her money? Her daughter or her husband? This is the question posed by a very recent probate lawsuit that wasn’t just fighting over an estate, or a lot of money. It also was an inheritance dispute over whether Mom was validly married to a man when she died. Of course, this lawsuit questioning whether Mom’s last marriage was void or not occurred AFTER Mom’s death !
Second or third marriage? In Florida, particularly Palm Beach and Broward County Florida, second, third, and fourth marriages are very common. These so-called “late-life” marriages can be a blessing to seniors in their golden years on a personal level: companionship, company, love.
Are you the beneficiary of a Florida trust? What can you learn about a very recent Connecticut Superior Court case involving trust litigation and the concept known as “trust decanting?”