Estate Planning When You Are Single: A Miami Checklist
Single in Miami? Florida’s intestacy rules may not match your wishes. A practical checklist of the documents and choices every unmarried adult needs.
October 12, 2025
Single in Miami? Florida’s intestacy rules may not match your wishes. A practical checklist of the documents and choices every unmarried adult needs.
Marriage, divorce, or a new baby in Miami? Florida law may change your plan automatically. A checklist for what to update and why it matters.
How Florida’s 30% elective share protects a surviving spouse, what counts in the estate, and how Miami couples plan around or for it.
How joint ownership and survivorship rights can derail a Florida estate plan, override your will, and trigger elective-share and creditor problems.
Avoid the most common Florida estate planning mistakes—elective share, homestead, beneficiary, and spousal traps—with guidance from a Miami estate attorney.
How Florida trust administration works after the grantor dies: trustee duties, the 60-day notice, accountings, creditor claims, and a surviving spouse’s rights.
How to plan for digital assets and online accounts in your Florida estate plan under Chapter 740, and what surviving spouses should know.
How to name a guardian for your minor children in a Florida estate plan, including who decides, how courts rule, and the documents you actually need.
A plain-English Miami checklist of the five core estate planning documents every Florida adult needs, and what each one actually does.
Unmarried in Miami? Florida law gives partners no automatic rights. A practical checklist to protect each other through wills, deeds, and key documents.
Common Florida power of attorney mistakes Miami residents make, from outdated forms to missing durable language, and a checklist to avoid them.
How snowbirds and dual-state residents should structure estate plans across Florida and a northern state to avoid double taxation, probate, and spousal disputes.
A Florida living trust keeps your estate out of public probate records, shielding assets, heirs, and family matters from prying eyes. Here’s how.
How Florida business owners plan their estates and structure succession to protect spouses, partners, and the company. Buy-sell, trusts, and elective share.
What happens if you die without a will in Florida? A Miami checklist on intestacy, who inherits, homestead, and the probate process that follows.
A Miami estate attorney explains Florida incapacity planning: durable powers of attorney, health care surrogates, and how to avoid guardianship.
How Medicaid asset protection planning works in Florida: the 5-year lookback, ICP limits, irrevocable trusts, and spousal rules. Miami estate planning guidance.
In Florida, beneficiary designations on life insurance, IRAs and accounts override your will. Learn how this affects surviving spouses and elective share.
How charitable giving and trusts work in a Florida estate plan, including CRTs, CLTs, and how charitable gifts interact with a spouse’s elective share.
A step-by-step Florida estate planning checklist for Miami residents: wills, durable POA, homestead, trusts, and beneficiary designations done right.
How special needs trusts protect a disabled beneficiary’s Medicaid and SSI in Florida — types, funding, trustee duties, and elective-share pitfalls.
How Florida spendthrift trusts and staggered distributions protect an inheritance from creditors, lawsuits, and a young or financially reckless heir.
Do Miami residents really need a will? A practical Florida checklist on when a will matters, what it cannot do, and when a trust may be better.
A Miami estate attorney explains when and why to review your Florida estate plan, with key triggers, the elective share, and surviving-spouse pitfalls.
A Miami checklist on ILITs: how an irrevocable life insurance trust works under Florida law, who needs one, and the tradeoffs to weigh.
When do irrevocable trusts make sense in Florida? A Miami estate planning attorney explains Medicaid, creditor, tax, and elective-share considerations.
A step-by-step Miami, FL checklist for funding a revocable living trust: retitling real estate, accounts, and beneficiary forms under Florida law (Ch. 736).
How Florida second-marriage estate plans and prenuptial agreements coordinate elective share, homestead, and children from a prior marriage.
How to fund a revocable trust correctly in Florida: retitling assets, beneficiary coordination, homestead, and elective-share traps to avoid probate.
A Florida estate planning attorney explains Lady Bird (enhanced life estate) deeds: how they avoid probate, protect Medicaid eligibility, and affect spouses.
