On March 27, 2017, Attorney Elizabeth Allen gave a presentation on planning for individuals with special needs to the Buddy Baseball organization. Buddy Baseball is a noncompetitive, recreational baseball league for boys and girls with special needs located in Tampa, Florida. The presentation was held at the Omar K. Lightfoot Recreation Center in Temple Terrace. […]
Elizabeth Allen, the firm’s elder law attorney, gave a presentation on March 7th to the Business Transitions Council. This group is made up of Tampa Bay area business leaders who focus on sharing ideas, experiences, education and insights among its members and the business community to increase the members’ professional effectiveness. Ms. Allen spoke to […]
On March 21, Gibbons | Neuman attorney, Gary Gibbons, served as Moderator for a documentary film presentation, “Troubled Waters: Connections and Consequences” at the historic Tampa Theatre. The film was sponsored by the Tampa Bay Sierra Club, for which Gary serves as the Membership Chair and as a member of its Executive Committee. Following the […]
Gibbons | Neuman attorney, Victor H. Veschio, recently presented his oral argument before the Second District Court of Appeal on the issue of whether Florida’s statute of limitations bars a subsequent mortgage foreclosure action where the alleged default date is beyond the applicable 5-year limitation period, but the suit alleging the default also includes “and […]
Georgi Angelov and Victor Veschio, two of our attorneys who practice in the Creditors’ Rights section of the firm, participated in the Hillsborough County Bar Association’s 5K Pro Bono River Run as part of the team representing the Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association of which Georgi and Victor are members. For this Pro Bono […]
Loretta O’Keeffe and Victor Veschio, two of our attorneys who practice in the Creditors’ Rights section of the firm were invited to give a presentation to high school students at the Academy of Holy Names in Tampa at its “Legal Talk Mini Course” on March 13, 2017. Their presentations included a discussion of the […]
If you have minor children, it is critical that you set up a Trust for your children, in the event that you die prematurely. In most instances, this is done as a “testamentary trust,” which is a trust created in a Will that is not funded until the time that monies and assets would otherwise […]
As we or our loved ones age the possibility of long-term care is that ever present fear in the back of our minds. The total upheaval of lives due to long term health matters takes its toll. A wife struggles to keep her husband at home while watching him deteriorate from Alzheimer’s; a daughter becomes […]
During the foreclosure crisis, a large number of investors purchased properties coming through foreclosure sales thinking that all possible liens against the properties had been wiped out in the foreclosure proceedings. Although it is critically important to have the title examined in order to determine that all proper parties were included in the suit […]
In the case of In re Failla, 838 F.3d 1170 (11th Cir. 2016), the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals resolved a split among the Bankruptcy Courts as to what “surrender” means within the context of Section 521(a)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code, by ruling that a Debtor who elects to “surrender” real property cannot oppose a […]