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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- A Will can be rescinded if testator executed it based on irrational belief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
Library
Resources
We represent clients facing probate, trust and fiduciary litigation cases in Lee County, Collier County, Henry County, Charlotte County and Highland County. If you need legal assistance in another state or location, view our list of recommended law firms that can help you.Estate Planning
- ACTEC - American Collete of Trust and Estate Counsel: ACTEC has a lot of good information not only about estate planning, but about trust and estate litigation. ACTEC also puts out a quarterly publication that has some pretty good information in it.
Guardianship Administration and Litigation
- Florida State Guardianship Association: This is a professional website for lawyers and guardians in Florida. Good site for general information, and some helpful links.
Elder law
- Academy of Florida Elder Law Attorneys (AFELA): This has some good information concerning general elder law.
- Elder law section of the Florida Bar:
This is the Elder law section of the Florida Bar. There is some good general information here on elder law issues.
- Florida Department of Elder Affairs: Florida Department of Elder Affairs; this is a good website for the general public and there are lots of helpful links.
- National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys: This is the national website for elder law attorneys. There is some good general information concerning elder law and many good links.
Probate and Estate Administration
- American Bar Association Section of Real Property Trust and Estate law: This is a good site to find out general information related to repal property, trust and estate law on a national level.
Probate and Trust Litigation
- Real Property, Probte and Trust Law Section of the Florida Bar: This is the section website for the Florida Bar Real property, probate and trust law section of the Florida Bar. There is some good general information here.
Tax planning, audits and litigation
- Internal Revenue Code and Treasury (tax) Regulations: Looking for somthing to do; try reading a few federal revenue statutes. You will quickly learn why tax law is a specialty.
- Internal Revenue Service: Many of you have probably been to this site. Often this is the first place that I go to look for some forms.
General
- ABA Standing Committee on Specialization:
This is the American Bar Association webpage on Sources of Certification for lawyers.
- So you want to read the statute yourself? Here is one place you can do that for free (Florida Statutes):
Some clients like to read the statues themselves. I generally like that because it shows the client is taking an active role in their case.
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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
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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 grandmothers 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 doesan 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?