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- Can (and Should) a Beneficiary be Witness to a Will?
- What is the Difference Between a Charitable Lead Trust vs. a Charitable Remainder Trust?
- The Good and Not So Good About Irrevocable Trusts
- What is a Self-Proving Affidavit in Florida?
- What You Need to Know About Personal Representative Duties in Florida
- What is the Difference Between Revocable and Irrevocable Trusts?
- How to Do an Irrevocable Trust Modification in Florida?
- Build Your Wealth – Consider Some Advanced Estate Planning Strategies
- Why Not Make Tuition Costs a Part of Your Advanced Estate Planning?
- The Top 10 “Estate Tune Up” Ideas
- The 5 Top Estate Planning Tips for 2019
- What is a Private Annuity?
- What Is The Unified Credit?
- What Does Right of Survivorship Mean?
- What Is a Self-Cancelling Installment Note?
- What is a Grantor Retained Unitrust?
- How Would Divorce Impact an Estate Plan in Florida?
- What Is a Pour-Over Will?
- Medicaid Matters: 5 FAQs
- What Can I Do Now to Avoid Probate Later?
- Category: Business Succession Planning
- Category: COVID-19
- Charitable Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Has The Coronavirus Changed the Need for Estate Planning?
- Is There Any Tax Relief During the COVID-19 Crisis?
- How Do I Execute a Will in a Time of COVID-19 Social Distancing?
- Estate Planning During the Coronavirus: Should You Get Your Estate in Order?
- COVID-19 – We Are Always Here For Our Clients
- Category: Elder Law
- Category: Estate Planning Law
- Can You Change Beneficiaries in an Irrevocable Trust?
- Some Estate Planning New Year’s Resolutions For 2021
- Is a Hand Written Will Valid in Florida?
- What are the Various Types of Wills in Florida?
- Wrapping Up the Year with Gifts . . . Estate Planning Strategies for Gifting this Year
- How Will Possible Tax Policy Changes Impact Your Estate Planning?
- What is the Purpose of Estate Planning?
- The Late Jimi Hendrix, a Cautionary Tale . . . for Estate Planning?
- 6 Estate Planning Tools That You Need to Consider
- Are There Special Tax Deductions for Daycare Providers?
- What is a Grantor?
- Do You Need a Living Trust or a Will?
- How to Use Estate Planning to Ease the Tax Burden on Your Family
- Can You Amend an Irrevocable Trust?
- What Is a Private Trust?
- What Is a Generation-Skipping Transfer?
- How Does Florida’s Anti-Lapse Statute Work?
- What Is a Health Care Surrogate?
- How Do I Choose the Right Attorney to Draft My Will?
- Take Care Of All Your Children: Don’t Forget The Furry Ones
- Your Life Changes: Is Your Estate Plan Keeping Up With You?
- Inherited Trusts and Divorce
- The Secret to Self-Cancelling Installment Notes
- What Do Joint Tenants with Rights of Survivorship Mean?
- Plan Early, and Plan to Access Assets That Are In a Trust
- What Does Incapacity Mean in Florida?
- How Can I Benefit from an Incentive Trust?
- How Can You Protect Your Assets from Future Creditors?
- How to Change the Trustee of an Irrevocable Trust in Florida’s
- The Secure Act: How Will the New Law Impact You?
- New Year’s Resolution – Review Your Estate Planning for 2020
- Sibling Squabbles – How Estate Planning Can Avoid Fights Over Inheritance
- Top 10 Estate Planning Steps to Avoid Family Inheritance Disputes
- 5 Estate Planning Tips for Unmarried Couples
- Estates 101: The Four Types of Probate in Florida
- The Grantor Retained Unitrust – Not as Complicated as It Sounds
- The Truth About Irrevocable Trusts
- What Is An Incentive Trust?
- What are the Top 8 Tax Planning Strategies?
- Can an Irrevocable Trust Be Amended? Here Are The 5 Ways
- What is the Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax?
- Even Without Children, an Estate Plan Is a Smart Move
- Ten Reasons Why Drafting Will is Good for You
- Can You Amend an Irrevocable Trust?
- Life Insurance Beneficiary – What are the Probate and Tax Consequences?
- 6 Things You Need to Know About Medicaid Planning
- The Benefits of an Estate Plan and The Pitfalls If You Don’t Plan at All
- Estate Planning: Crafting Your Legacy
- Understanding Will Based Estate Planning
- Guns and Estate Planning
- Differences Between Revocable and Irrevocable Trust: 4 Things You Should Know
- Medicaid Planning: 3 Things You Should Know
- Category: Firm Publications
- SECURE ACT changes IRA and Retirement Plan Distribution Rules
- Establishing Trusts For Children: A Few Practical Tips
- His, Hers and Theirs: The Estate Planning for the 2nd Marriage
- Death & Taxes: The Complete Guide to Family Inheritance Planning
- Advanced Planning for the Large Estate
- Planning for the Terminally Ill
- Take Charge of Your Destiny: Estate planning for the single woman
- Amending Irrevocable Trust Florida
- Legacy Incentive Trust
- Weathering The Storm
- Low Interest Rates
- Have your Cake and Eat It Too
- Most Common Mistakes
- Postmortem Planning for Heirs
- Domestic Asset Protection Trusts
- Category: Generations Giving Tax
- Category: Guardianship Law
- Do I Need an Attorney to Obtain a Legal Guardianship Issue in Florida?
- Common Questions About Guardianship For Minors
- I Have a Special Needs Child, How Do I Remain His Guardian?
- Florida Guardianship Law – All the Basics
- The Guardianship Accountability Act and the Challenge of Guardianships
- Can I Avoid Guardianship Pitfalls?
- What is a Guardianship?
- Category: Medicaid Planning
- Category: Prenuptial Agreement
- Category: Press Releases
- Doane and Doane, PA Welcomes New Associate Attorney H. Bryan Doane
- Attorneys Recognized in the Best Lawyers in America 2020
- Attorneys Recognized in the Best Lawyers in America 2021
- Doane & Doane Attorneys Named Top Lawyers 2019 by Palm Beach Illustrated Magazine
- Doane & Doane, PA Attorneys Recognized as Florida Legal Elite 2020
- Florida Super Lawyers list 2020
- South Florida Legal Guide Top Lawyers 2020
- Doane and Doane, PA Welcomes Associate Attorney Nelson
- Palm Beach County Back to School Bash 2019
- Florida Super Lawyers list 2019
- Doane and Doane, PA Welcomes New Associate Attorney Cray
- Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America 2019
- Doane & Doane Attorneys Named Top Lawyers 2018 by Palm Beach Illustrated Magazine
- Attorneys Named South Florida Legal Guide Top Lawyers 2017
- Attorneys Named South Florida Legal Guide Top Lawyers 2018
- Doane & Doane Attorneys Recognized as Accredited Estate Planner
- Doane & Doane, PA Welcomes New Associate Attorney
- Florida Super Lawyers list 2018
- Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America 2018
- Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America 2017
- Florida Super Lawyers list 2017
- Florida Super Lawyers list 2016
- Category: Probate Law
- Back to Basics: We Answer Some of Your Florida Probate Questions
- What is a Fixed Fee Probate?
- The Probate Process 101: Your Guide to Florida Probate
- TELL ME ABOUT LEAVING PROPERTY IN A WILL IN FLORIDA
- Probate and Life Insurance, How Do They Relate to One Another?
- What Are the Rights of Creditors and Surviving Family Members in Probate?
- What Is Formal Administration in Florida?
- How Much Does Probate Cost in Florida?
- Are We Ready for Electronic Wills?
- The Florida Formal Probate Administration Process in 10 Easy Steps
- What to Know Once Your Loved One Passes Away: The Formal Probate Administration Process
- What is Ancillary Probate and How Does It Impact You?
- Does Life Insurance Go Through Probate?
- How Are a Revocable Trust and Summary Administration Related?
- Can You Entirely Disinherit Someone? Not Always
- How Does an Estate Deal with Bills and Taxes?
- To Will or Not to Will? The Primary Probate Question
- What is a Personal Representative in a Probate Matter?
- What is Ancillary Probate, and How Can I Avoid It?
- Property, Probate, and a Downside to Summary Administration?
- Alternatives to the Formal Administration of Probate?
- Category: Tax Planning
- Tax Time Is Around the Corner – Can Florida’s Homestead Exemption Help You?
- How Will Possible Tax Policy Changes Impact Your Estate Planning? Part 2
- Tips on Year-End Charitable Gifting in 2020
- What is the Homestead Exemption in Florida?
- Gloomy Skies Create a Perfect Storm for Wealth Transfer Opportunities
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