A Living Will is a common name for a type of advance directive used to express a person’s wishes concerning healthcare treatment prolonging their life when they are no longer able to communicate such wishes. Living Wills provide instruction on the providing or withdrawing of medical care when one is faced with a terminal end-stage…
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What is a Florida Healthcare Surrogate?
In Florida, adults can appoint a person to make healthcare decisions for them if they become incapacitated and are not able to make healthcare decisions on their own. The person appointed is known as a Florida Healthcare Surrogate. Typically, the Healthcare Surrogate may make decisions on behalf of the incapacitated person concerning: General health care…
Read more ...What Are Florida Powers of Attorney?
Florida Powers of Attorney are one of the most important and underappreciated legal documents in financial and estate planning. With a Power of Attorney, a person (referred to as the “principal”) gives another person (the agent or attorney-in-fact) the legal right to take action on the principal’s behalf. The scope of the agent’s authority is…
Read more ...Do I Need a Trust or a Will or Both?
Often clients ask this question. In many cases, a simple will is sufficient to handle the estate planning objectives of a client, and the extra time and expense associated with creating and funding a trust (re-titling and deeding property into the name of the trust) is not necessary. In other instances, a trust will be…
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