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.
A plain-English Miami checklist of the five core estate planning documents every Florida adult needs, and what each one actually does.
How Florida business owners plan their estates and structure succession to protect spouses, partners, and the company. Buy-sell, trusts, and elective share.
How joint ownership and survivorship rights can derail a Florida estate plan, override your will, and trigger elective-share and creditor problems.
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 Florida living trust keeps your estate out of public probate records, shielding assets, heirs, and family matters from prying eyes. Here’s how.
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).
A Miami, FL checklist for protecting an inheritance: trusts, spendthrift clauses, staggered distributions, and trustee choices under Florida law (Ch. 736).
A Miami estate attorney explains Florida incapacity planning: durable powers of attorney, health care surrogates, and how to avoid guardianship.
How special needs trusts protect a disabled beneficiary’s Medicaid and SSI in Florida — types, funding, trustee duties, and elective-share pitfalls.
How to plan for digital assets and online accounts in your Florida estate plan under Chapter 740, and what surviving spouses should know.
What estate planning really costs in Miami, FL: flat fees vs. hourly, what a plan includes, and why probate is the hidden cost. A practical Florida checklist.
How Florida spendthrift trusts and staggered distributions protect an inheritance from creditors, lawsuits, and a young or financially reckless heir.
How to fund a revocable trust correctly in Florida: retitling assets, beneficiary coordination, homestead, and elective-share traps to avoid probate.
A Florida attorney’s guide to blended-family estate planning: elective share, homestead, QTIP trusts, and protecting both your spouse and children.
How Florida pet trusts work and a Miami checklist to fund, staff, and structure care for your dog, cat, or other animals after you’re gone.
Step-by-step checklist for making a legally valid will in Florida. Witness rules, self-proving affidavits, and pitfalls Miami residents should avoid.
How Medicaid asset protection planning works in Florida: the 5-year lookback, ICP limits, irrevocable trusts, and spousal rules. Miami estate planning guidance.
