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A full-service Florida trusts and estates law firm. We offer clients individually tailored estate planning advice that leverages their ability to transfer wealth to future generations while minimizing taxes, risk of loss and family acrimony. We have extensive experience representing individuals, banks and trust companies serving as trustees and personal representatives of Florida trusts and estates.
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Stokes McMillan Antúnez Martinez-Lejarza P.A. offers skillful estate planning advice tailored to each client’s particular circumstances. Reviewing with our clients their family values and objectives and their wealth array, we help them develop a path to their tax and personal goals.
Stokes McMillan Antúnez Martinez-Lejarza P.A. has extensive experience in administering complex estates and trusts, enabling us to assist clients in the most tax-efficient and beneficial ways to fulfill the terms of the particular will or trust at issue.
We believe that Stokes McMillan Antúnez Martinez-Lejarza P.A. offers one of the strongest and most experienced trust and estate litigation practice groups in the State of Florida.
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Will contests and evidentiary presumptions
“[P]ost mortem squabblings and contests on mental condition . . . have…
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Is a Personal Representative personally liable for damages exceeding the value of the estate when caused by their breach of fiduciary duty?
Creditor claims against an estate must be paid to the extent allowed…
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Is a post-death arbitration award subject to our probate code’s ultra-short creditor filing deadlines?
Not all payment demands against a probate estate are created equal. Some…
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Is $8.9 million a reasonable reserve amount for a removed trustee? Who decides? A judge or jury?
If you’re a trustee, you can’t just quit and walk away leaving…
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Who decides who decides? Your trust protector or a judge?
It used to be so simple. Back in the day trust lawyers…
Continue Reading“Wills are uncanny and electric documents. They lie dormant for years and…
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