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Trusts are perhaps the most dynamic tool in the estate planner’s toolbox. Trusts have a variety of benefits that include establishing rules with respect to the management and disposition of your assets and the potential provision of significant tax savings. There are many types of trusts, and this blog post…
Category: Trusts
Whenever there are disputes surrounding the distribution or administration of a deceased person’s trust assets, trust litigation may be inevitable. Trust litigation involves challenging the trust itself, or a dispute interpreting the trust’s terms in a similar way that probate litigation involves challenging a will or interpreting the terms of…
Trustees are charged with protecting the settlor’s (known frequently as a trustor or grantor) assets. However, trustees are not immune from mistakes, whether intentional, through negligence or even naivete. Fiduciary misconduct is a driving force behind many types of trust disputes. Disputing a trustee’s actions or inactions, may be necessary…
Advice from a Florida and Palm Beach County Trust Attorney Parties to a trust will often speak in terms of “firing a trustee.” In Florida, this is referred to as a “trustee removal action.” In a trustee removal action, an interested party may seek to remove a trustee from the…
Comiter, Singer, Baseman & Braun, LLP, is thrilled to announce associates, Brian M. Spiro, Antonio P. Romano & Christopher C. Weeg, graduated from the Florida Fellows Institute of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). The Florida Fellows Institute was created by ACTEC Fellows to develop the profession’s future leaders…
