Jacksonville Estate Planning Lawyer

Jacksonville Estate Planning Lawyer David M Goldman founded the Apple Law Firm to provide a unique Florida Asset Protection &  Florida Estate Planning perspective to clients around Florida and around Jacksonville, Orange Park, & Ponte Vedra Beach. We love to teach people about unique aspects of Florida estate planning and the interaction of Estate Planning in Jacksonville with Asset Protection and Business Formations. Lately Florida Foreclosure Defense has been a primary concern for many Estate Planning and Florida Probate clients.  A Jacksonville Foreclosure Defense Lawyer can help with Florida Foreclosures that are in or outside of an estate. These three areas of law are used in conjunction with each other to create balanced plans that offer protection and help clients provide the ability to transfer wealth from generation to generation while reducing the risk of creditors claims and the effects of estate taxes on the family. By using Florida Wills, Florida Trusts, Durable Powers of Attorney, living wills, and medical powers of attorney our attorneys and lawyers can help individuals deal with incapacity and death.

Elder Law and Florida Medicaid Planning can help individuals do estate planning while reducing the risk that common estate planning techniques can have on eligibility for nursing home coverage. As the age of an individual increases, it is important to consider the effects of planning techniques on Medicaid Eligibility. Often we find that individuals add children on to a deed to avoid probate, but create huge damages in terms of nursing home coverage. It is important to have your Jacksonville Estate Planning Documents reviewed by a lawyer who is also familiar with Medicaid planning techniques.

Often our family members are unable to make decisions on our own. In these cases, we can establish a Florida Guardianship to help family members and friends protect and care for family members. Sometimes a Guardianship is required because someone else is abusing a family member emotionally, physically, or financially. If the individual is not able to understand what is going on, in Florida, often a Guardianship is the quickest way to protect our family members on a short and long term.

More of our clients have recently begun to feel the effects of fraudulent actions by Florida Guardians, agents acting with a power of attorneys or by a trustee. In Jacksonville and around Florida we represent family members and friends who have been adversely affected by actions that were improper and have deprived them of an expectancy that would result upon the passing of a parent or loved one. Often these issues involve Florida Probate Litigation or Trust Litigation as well as traditional suits against the agents on an individual basis.

After our family members have died, it is often necessary to Probate their assets to properly transfer them to creditors and beneficiaries. Depending on how long the person has been deceased, we can do a Full Administration or a Summary Administration. A summary administration is available in Florida when the decedent has been dead more than 2 years or the total amount of assets that are subject to a Florida Probate are less than $75,000.

We hope that this website and the content that we have included on it will be a resource to our clients and the general public. If we can be of help on any matter contained on this website please contact one of our Jacksonville Foreclosure Lawyers, Florida Probate Lawyers, or Jacksonville Estate Planning Lawyers to discuss your situation.