Pretty much every week I meet with a couple who have been married previously, who want to be sure their will is up to date. Ensuring that a will and other important documents that you drafted years ago are current is a valuable exercise, one I recommend couples do regularly. (More on this below.) But married
You may think that if you’ve been written out of your spouse’s will, you won’t inherit a thing, but that may not be true. Ditto if your partner drafted their will before you were married. That’s because Florida law protects spouses from total disinheritance, regardless of what a will says. A husband or wife, for
Homesteaded property enjoys a complicated and confusing status under Florida probate law. It isn’t a probate asset, but to get its special non-estate status, it has to be certified as such by a probate judge. In other words, the only way to keep it out of probate is to take it there first, unless the
