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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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What’s a “convenience account” and why should probate attorneys care?
In today’s world the vast majority of inherited wealth gets transferred from…
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The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
I’m a long-time subscriber of Miami Judge Milton Hirsch’s thoughtfully written “Constitutional…
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Are trustees and beneficiaries of a decedent’s trust “interested persons” of his probate estate?
Our probate code uses the “interested person” concept to ensure that anyone…
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Is the appointment of a personal representative a precondition to filing a rule 1.260 motion to substitute?
If you’re litigating a case and the defendant dies, the last thing…
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Constructive Trust: Remedy, Cause of Action, or Both?
I was recently in a contested court hearing where a smart and…
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Are Turkish testamentary marital property rights enforceable in Florida?
Choice-of-law problems involving marital property are relatively uncommon, but when they do…
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