Building Your Brighter Tomorrow With Proven Immigration And Estate Planning Strategies
Some foreign nationals may wish to travel to Florida on a J-1 visa. This type of employment visa is useful in a variety of different situations. It is a temporary visa meant for a number of different occupations and time periods, including a one-day academic lecturer, a summer camp counselor and a physician whose visa…
Ideally, individuals in Florida and throughout the country will take proactive steps to make their estate plans as strong as possible. For instance, those who want to avoid probate might do so by creating a trust. Creating a trust might also help to protect assets from creditor claims or prevent a beneficiary from squandering his…
Some students rely on verification of their school enrollment to maintain their U.S. visas. Residents of Florida might be interested in the modification of temporary exemptions for students who are not immigrants. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program announced temporary modifications. These affect non-immigrant students who will be…
An overhaul of the website for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services may mean that some immigrants in Florida have better access to applications, petitions and general resources. A press release from the agency says that the site’s new design should make finding relevant information easier. There are also more resources for Spanish speakers…
Not everyone has the ability to participate in a Florida will contest. In order to challenge a will or to defend against a challenge, one must be an interested party. At some point, courts will draw a line and keep some people out of the proceedings. When an estate is going through probate, interested parties…
Those who are involved in a will contest in a Florida court may want to know exactly who is allowed to participate. State law draws a line in saying that not everyone has the ability to be a part of the process. Specifically, one must be an interested party in order to play a role…
Interested parties in Florida and throughout the country had been awaiting a decision by the Supreme Court that determined whether President Trump possesses the right to end the DACA program. The United States Supreme Court found that President Trump did not have that right. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was put in place by…
When a parent dies, the adult children who are left behind might slip into a chaotic legal battle over the division of assets. These battles can produce long-term hard feelings as well as mounting legal bills. However, some pre-planning by the parents can help reduce or even prevent these probate battles that might drag on…
When a person dies without a will in Florida, their assets are distributed to heirs in accordance with what is called intestate succession. Under intestate succession, there is a set order of who will receive each portion of a decedent’s assets. For instance, if a decedent’s spouse is alive, that spouse will receive all the…
When someone passes away, questions may arise about the division of assets. If the person has a will, then the answers likely exist in the wording of the document. Florida probate courts will oversee the division of assets based on the decedent’s wishes. Not every asset the decedent possessed may need to go through probate,…
