Month: October 2013

One thing you might want to consider if you are a business owner or just a regular person in South Florida, is acquiring a trust attorney in Coral Springs to create a trust for your company or just for yourself. Trusts can be used in running a business for the benefit for others.

A trustee can be designated by the trust attorneys in Coral Springs to run the business on behalf of the beneficiaries of the trust. For example, a family business can be set up as a trust so that family members are made beneficiaries but have no involvement in running the actual business.

A trust attorney at Reinfeld & Cabrera, in their Coral Springs office, will explain to you that there are many benefits to a business trust, such as reduced liability, protection of assets and they also allow for flexibility of asset and income distribution.

There are several different types of trusts and the trust attorneys at Reinfeld and Cabrera will be able to explain the different varieties to you at their Coral Springs office. Once you choose the type of trust you want to create, you are bound to follow the rules for that type of trust in order to ensure it is legal and will result in carrying out your wishes.

You may also wish to hire trust attorneys in Coral Springs to establish a trust for your own estate, not only for your business. Trusts can be an important part of estate planning and can help you avoid taxes and probate and can help you allocate your estate, as you fit.

Let the trust attorneys at Reinfeld & Cabrera’s Coral Springs office help you establish your trust for your business or your own personal estate. We will walk you through the process and make sure you are happy with the plans that are put in place.

The will attorneys in Reinfeld & Cabrera’s Coral Springs office want to remind you how important it is to keep your will up-to-date. You may have done the majority of your estate planning years ago, but now there are some changes you need to make to your will.

Your will is one of the most important documents you will ever establish and it is important to keep it up-to-date, reflecting your current plans for your estate. While the plans you made in your will years ago reflect your life at that time, you may want your current will to reflect changes in your life. The will attorneys in Coral Springs will help you update your will and make sure your estate plans are in order.

There are a lot of reasons why you might want to update your will. Marriage, divorce, and death are all reasons why wills need to be updated to reflect you current life status. A new child is also a reason to make changes to your will, as it will now reflect a new heir to your estate. Other potential reasons to update a will would be if you have seen a significant decrease or increase to your estate. For example, if you have won the lottery since your last will update, you will want to change your documents with the will attorneys in Coral Springs, to reflect your current worth.

If you have recently moved to the South Florida area from out of state, then you should also have a will attorney from Reinfeld & Cabrera’s Coral Springs office review your will to make sure it will be current and up to date according to Florida law. Tax laws change on a regular basis as well. It is always good to have your will reviewed and updated to take advantage of any new tax law changes that may be reflected in your estate planning.

Of course, the will attorneys in Coral Springs know that sometimes you just might change your mind about something in your will. Whether it be about the person you have named as the guardian of your children, or someone who was named to receive an inheritance from your estate, it is okay to change your mind and want your will to reflect this latest decision.

Don’t hesitate. Make those changes to your will today before it is too late.

Probate can often be a convoluted process and to understand the proceedings involved it is best to have an experienced and knowledgeable probate attorney in Coral Springs to guide you.

Reinfeld & Cabrera, probate attorneys in Coral Springs and serving the South Florida area, offer a personalized approach to estate administration and probate. The probate process is a court-supervised proceeding that identifies assets of a deceased person, pays the deceased person’s debts, and distributes the person’s assets to his or her beneficiaries.

Depending on each specific probate process, the proceedings may involve a circuit court judge, an executor, the multiple beneficiaries and creditors of the estate, and a probate attorney to provide legal advice, such as our attorneys from our Coral Springs office, those filing claims in the probate process involving debts incurred by the deceased, and the Internal Revenue Service. The circuit court judge will rule on the validity of the deceased’s will, and will hold hearings as necessary to resolve any questions or disputes that arise during the probate process.

If you wish to avoid the probate process, the probate attorneys at Reinfeld & Cabrera in Coral Springs advise clients to have revocable trusts or properly plan out their estate plans. Trust administration is a similar process to probate, as each requires a responsible party to ensure the estate plan is properly carried out.

The probate attorneys in Coral Springs will make every effort to resolve all disputes related to the administration of either trusts or estates, in order to avoid lawsuits and to make the process less of a hassle to your family. But when issues are not able to be handled outside of court, we have the knowledge and litigation experience to represent you.

Our experienced probate attorneys in Coral Springs will guide you through the entire probate or trust administration process.