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While this does not directly deal with Florida estate planning, I thought it may be of interest to many of my readers including attorneys.
Florida’s Fourth District recently ruled last week that Florida Legislature’s has the ability to cap attorney’s fees and costs for bills that awards a plaintiff damages over the usual $200,000 cap when the state is a defendant in a tort action. This is a significant ruling because the legislature ruled to give the original plaintiff family more than the capped damages, but would not give their attorneys the contracted for contingent fees the family wished to pay them for the work done. Continue reading
In Florida, estate planning is used to ensure that a person’s estate is left to his or her loved ones in the way they intended through a will or trust. However, if a person dies without a will, his or her estate will be passed according to intestate succession, which means the estate will be passed out in certain percentages to the spouse and children and other ascertainable beneficiaries according to the rules of the court.
An issue can arise when a spouse is married through common-law marriage. If there is no will or trust a spouse can be left out of the will if he or she was not legally married to the deceased.
How to prove common-law marriage?
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