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TINA TURNER DIED AND HER LEGACY LIVES ON, WHO WILL INHERIT HER $250 MILLION DOLLAR ESTATE ?

On May 24, 2023, Tina Turner, the music legend died after enduring a long illness. Tina lived by her own ...

ESTATE PLANNING IN MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, IS ESTATE PLANNING ONLY FOR THE ELDERLY?

Estate planning is not just for old people. A young couple called last week when the husband of 42 years ...

ESTATE PLANNING IN MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, DO I WANT TO GO TO PROBATE COURT?

Nobody wants to go to probate court in Miami-Dade County, FL or anywhere else. Probate court is expensive, can take ...

ESTATE PLANNING IN MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, HOW DO I GET MIAMI-DADE COUNTY HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION? THE HOMESTEAD PERIOD IS EACH YEAR FROM JAN-MARCH.

January 1st of each year begins the homestead application acceptance time period in Miami-Dade County. A person can apply for homestead ...

ESTATE PLANNING IN MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF MIAMI-DADE PROBATE CASES?

If you have been reading my blogs, you know that you can avoid probate court involvement with a properly funded ...

ESTATE PLANNING IN MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, THE TALE OF THREE MIAMI -DADE PROBATE CASES THAT COULD HAVE ALL BEEN PREVENTED 

Good estate planning can be very effective in avoiding probate court involvement and carrying out the decedent’s wishes. Yet, many ...

ESTATE PLANNING IN MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, WHAT IF I DON’T PLAN?

Five years ago, I helped my client with a Miami-Dade probate case for her grandmother’s assets to go to her ...

ESTATE PLANNING IN MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, WHAT IF WE ARE MARRIED, BUT NOT REALLY TOGETHER?

Unless you have a legal separation in place, you are still legally married even if you are not really together. ...

ESTATE PLANNING IN MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, IS A SIMPLE WILL ENOUGH?

As an estate planning attorney in Miami Beach, Florida for over twenty-six years, I hear this often from new clients ...

ESTATE PLANNING IN MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, MY CLIENT DIED, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

As an estate planning attorney in Miami Beach, Florida for over twenty-six years, I sometimes experience the death of a ...