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Estate Planning
- Power of Attorney in Florida: Legal Acts Your Agent May Perform
- Avoid Florida Estate Planning Mistakes: Protect Your True Beneficiaries
- How to Avoid Florida Estate Planning Mistakes
- With Living Trusts, You Still Need a Will in Florida
- 4 Reasons To Get an Advance Directive in Florida
- Questions to Ask Estate Planning Attorneys in Fort Myers, Florida
- How Living Trusts Help You Avoid Probate in Florida
- The Advance Directive in Florida: 5 Things You Should Know
- What You Should Know About Florida Homestead Laws
- History of Codicil on a Will in Florida
Guardianship Administration and Litigation
Litigation relating to Breach of Fiduciary Duties
Probate and Estate Administration
- Probate in Florida: The Time it Takes to Settle a Case
- Probate in Florida: Common Probate Assets
- Florida Estate Planning: Online Accounts and Passwords
- Florida Letters of Administration When a Brokerage Firm is Involved
- When You May Need Letters of Administration in Florida
- Probate in Florida: Why the IRS is Involved
- Probate in Florida: 10 Parties Involved in the Process
- Noticing creditors is a big part of the probate process
- Second District Court of Appeals rules that joint tenancy property is not automatically converted to decedent's homestead because decedent had minor children.
Probate and Trust Litigation
- Surviving spouses sould not be tricked into paying for their deceased spouses debt
- New weapon to set aside a Florida will during contest
- This will contest demonstrates that it is critically important to have a qualified, experienced attorney prepare an estate plan to avoid endless litigation.
- The court has authority to sanction meritless claims in probate disputes.
- The lawyer made a mistake drafting the will and dad signed it, and now dad has died! (Part 1)
- What does it mean that the person executing the will lacked capacity?
- A Will can be rescinded if testator executed it based on irrational belief
- Formal Notice in Probate Requires Informed Response
- Common Signs of Undue Influence
- Adversarial Probate Proceedings
General
News
- Posted on 1/31/2012Consider a Florida Trust or LLC When Leaving a Vacation Home to Heirs
- Posted on 1/30/2012What type of emotional legacy are you leaving? Your Will in Florida
- Posted on 1/27/2012Florida Estate Planning: Federal Tax Laws Revised for 2012
- Posted on 1/26/2012Leaving a Stretched Florida IRA to a Beneficiary
- Posted on 1/25/2012When a Loved One Dies and Leaves You with Debt in Florida
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What is Matthew A. Linde, P.A.?
Matthew A. Linde, P.A. (the corporation) 
is a profit corporation organized and operated under Florida law. The Director and President of the corporation is Matthew A. Linde. Thus, the name of the corporation is the same as the name of the President and Director. People often ask what does the PA stand for? PA stands for professional association. Rule 4-8.6 of the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar allows attorneys to practice law through professional service corporations. Pursuant to Florida statute 612.12(2) a professional service corporation shall also contain the name P.A.
The number of attorneys in the corporation has changed between one and three attorneys. Currently, the corporation has one attorney and four non-attorney support staff. If you contact us the person that you are most likely to come in contact with is Tiffany Salamida. 
She is my incredibly gifted receptionist. She is in that position because she really cares about people and I am very blessed to have her work for me. Another person that you are likely to speak with is Rissa Arias. She has been with the corporation since 2004 and is my office manager. She is also very gifted and genuinely cares about people. She also keeps my books and answers initial questions about monthly bills that are sent out.
Mission Statement:
Matthew A. Linde, P.A. (the "Firm') relentlessly pursues perfection in the passionate and ethical practice of law. The Firm relentlessly pursues perfection. There is no finish line in the relentless pursuit of perfection. The Firm does not believe that it will ever attain perfection, but through the relentless pursuant of perfection in the passionate and ethical practice of law, the Firm believes that it will be judged by others to have obtained excellence. **
**This is taken and modified from a speech that Vince Lombardi first gave to the Green Bay Packers in 1959 when he took over as head coach. In the year before Vince Lombardi took over as head coach, the Packers had one (1) win and eleven (11) losses and were in danger of losing their franchise in the National Football League. Over the next nine years, the Packers never had a losing season and won five NFL championships including the first two Super Bowls. Three months after Vince Lombardi’s death in 1970, the Super Bowl trophy was renamed the Vince Lombardi Trophy. In part, this mission statement is a tribute to his professionalism, his relentless pursuit of Biblical ethics and Christian sanctification in his daily life, and the excellence he did obtain in his chosen field.
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Matthew A. Linde, P.A.
12693 New Brittany Blvd.
Fort Myers, FL 33907
Phone: 239.939.7100
Fax: 239.939.7104
Toll Free: 888.643.6514
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Videos
Estate Planning:
Attorney Linde discusses some reasons why trusts are frequently oversold.Guardianship Administration and Litigation:
Attorney Linde discusses issues you should consider when deciding whether to petition the Circuit court to determine if someone lacks mental capacityLitigation relating to Breach of Fiduciary Duties:
Basic issues to consider with the durable power of attorney.Probate and Trust Litigation:
Video of Matthew A. Linde discussing undue influence case with Lee A. Linde from 1994.General:
IntroductionFAQs
Business Litigation
Estate Planning
- What are the advantages of including a trust as part of my Florida estate planning?
- How important is identifying my assets in the course of estate planning in Florida?
- Why should I assign power of attorney as part of my Florida estate planning?
Guardianship Administration and Litigation
- What is an emergency temporary guardianship, and how long does it take to establish one?
- We have a minor child who is going to receive $50,000.00 from his great grandmother’s trust. We have heard that there are other options to setting up a guardianship of the property for our minor child. What are the other options?
- What does a guardianship cost and who pays for it?
Elder law
- If my husband died with debt, but I, his spouse, did not personally incur the debt, am I liable for the debt?
- I have seen several attorneys state that they practice "elder law." What does an attorney who practices "elder law" actually do?
Probate and Estate Administration
- Who supervises the administration of probate in Florida?
- Why does a personal representative in a Florida probate case need an attorney?
- In regards to a Florida probate case, who can be a personal representative?
Probate and Trust Litigation
In a will contest, will challenge, will dispute or lawsuit to set aside a will because the will was procured by undue influence, how do the courts interpret the term "active procurement?"
Are there any limitations that govern when I can attempt to remove a personal representative?
- Why can't I just tell the judge what happened and get this lawsuit over with?
