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How Divorce Can Affect Your Estate Plan

2025-07-03T10:16:44-04:00

Going through or having gone through a divorce can significantly impact your existing estate plan. If your documents are not updated, unintended beneficiaries—such as an ex-spouse—could inherit money or property that you intended for someone else. It’s important to understand that the filing of a divorce petition and the final entry of the dissolution of [...]

How Divorce Can Affect Your Estate Plan2025-07-03T10:16:44-04:00

Helping the Homebound: Supporting Our Seniors

2025-08-08T13:52:47-04:00

Today, our team proudly partnered with Better Living for Seniors’ (BLS) Helping the Homebound program—an inspiring initiative that provides basic quality-of-life items to homebound seniors in our community. Together, we packed 250 care bags filled with essentials like hygiene products, non-perishable snacks, household items, resource guides, and items for hurricane preparedness. These bags are more [...]

Helping the Homebound: Supporting Our Seniors2025-08-08T13:52:47-04:00

Why Your Child Needs a Power of Attorney When They Turn 18

2025-07-03T10:19:04-04:00

As parents, we’re all too familiar with signing paperwork on behalf of our children—whether it's at the doctor’s office, dentist, or for school and extracurricular activities. But when your child turns 18, things change. They are now legally adults, and as much as we want to continue guiding them, we can no longer step in [...]

Why Your Child Needs a Power of Attorney When They Turn 182025-07-03T10:19:04-04:00

Facing Excess Income When Applying for Medicaid? A Pooled Trust May Be the Solution

2025-07-03T10:20:26-04:00

One common challenge Medicaid applicants face is having income that exceeds the program’s limit. To address this, two common planning tools are a Qualified Income Trust (QIT) and a Pooled Trust. A QIT is limited in scope—it can only shelter excess monthly income and is restricted to paying for specific expenses like medical or facility-related [...]

Facing Excess Income When Applying for Medicaid? A Pooled Trust May Be the Solution2025-07-03T10:20:26-04:00

Estate Planning if You Have a Business or an LLC

2025-07-03T10:21:35-04:00

Every business owner needs a plan—not just for growth, but for the unexpected. Estate planning is a crucial step in protecting the future of your company. It ensures a smooth leadership transition, safeguards both business and personal assets, minimizes tax liabilities, and provides clarity for your employees and loved ones. Without a solid estate plan, [...]

Estate Planning if You Have a Business or an LLC2025-07-03T10:21:35-04:00

No Love Lost: The Case for Opening Sessions in Mediation

2025-06-25T09:59:45-04:00

Often, parties come to mediation with a great deal of animosity toward the other side. This frequently results in a request that there be no opening session. I am a big proponent of opening sessions in which the parties can hear the factual and legal positions directly from the other side, in a conversational manner, [...]

No Love Lost: The Case for Opening Sessions in Mediation2025-06-25T09:59:45-04:00

Estate Plans, Elder Law, and Real Property: How They Intersect

2025-04-30T12:13:59-04:00

Elizabeth “Liz” Allen, JD, LLM, has been with Gibbons | Neuman firm and practicing law for 35 years and focuses on people concerned with losing financial security and quality of life due to the cost of long-term health problems and disabilities. Liz’s primary areas of practice are Elder Law and Estate Planning. Rod Neuman has been [...]

Estate Plans, Elder Law, and Real Property: How They Intersect2025-04-30T12:13:59-04:00

Don’t Waive Your Client’s Right to Attorney’s Fees

2025-04-30T12:17:47-04:00

The Standard FAR/BAR Contract requires that the parties attempt to resolve disputes through mediation before a lawsuit can be filed. In the recent case of Pesantes v. Kelley, 2025 WL 611399 (Fla 3DCA 2025), the Florida Third District Court of appeal denied the Seller’s right to attorney’s fees because of the failure of the parties [...]

Don’t Waive Your Client’s Right to Attorney’s Fees2025-04-30T12:17:47-04:00

The Benefits of Using a Professional Fiduciary as a Trustee

2025-04-29T15:25:33-04:00

When it comes to estate planning, one of the most critical decisions you’ll make is who will manage your trust and ensure that your beneficiaries receive their inheritance as you intended. While it’s common for family members to take on this role, there are many situations where naming a professional fiduciary—an independent, third-party trustee—may be [...]

The Benefits of Using a Professional Fiduciary as a Trustee2025-04-29T15:25:33-04:00

Memorial Day – Remembering the Brave

2025-04-28T15:51:40-04:00

Today, we pause to remember the brave men and women who gave their lives in service to our country. Their sacrifice secures the freedoms we work to uphold every day. As a law firm committed to justice, we recognize that the liberties we defend exist because others have laid down everything to protect them. To [...]

Memorial Day – Remembering the Brave2025-04-28T15:51:40-04:00
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