Planning Your Future,Protecting Your Legacy
Secure Your Legacy With Thoughtful Estate Planning,Business Planning, and Real Estate
Planning Your Future,Protecting Your Legacy
Secure Your Legacy With Thoughtful Estate Planning,Business Planning, and Real Estate
Our Mission
Our mission is to be recognized leaders in guiding clients and their families in successfully navigating the legal and social issues of their business as well as aging, health care, and wealth management.
Estate Planning
All of our plans include:
- Consultation and custom design
- Financial Power of Attorney
- Medical Power of Attorney
- HIPAA Release
Revocable Living Trust Plan
- Revocable Trust
- Pourover Will
- Emergency Guardian Appointment
- Trust Funding
- No Charge for Plan Review Meeting Every 3 Years
- Maximum Available Protection of Trust Assets From Estate Tax
Last Will & Testament Plan
- Outright Distribution to Surviving Spouse
- Emergency Guardian Appointment
- Editable Delegation of Parental
- Decision Making Authority Trust for Minor Children via
- Pourover Will Will for Outright Distributions to Surviving Spouse
For Parents with Children Turning 18
- Financial Power of Attorney
- Medical Power of Attorney
- HIPAA Release
Probate
Estate
Administration
We help ensure one's financial affairs are wound up, and property is distributed upon death.
Trust
Administration
We help manage a trust for the benefit of the trust beneficiaries after the trust creator's death.
Real Estate
Administration
We help get a house through the probate process.
Business Law
Strategic Business Planning for Long-term Succession
- Who do you trust to continue the business?
- Conduct comprehensive business analysis
- Evaluate internal talent and leadership potential
- Implement succession planning programs
- Provide mentorship and training for potential successors
Exit
Strategy
- Formulate a comprehensive exit strategy and timeline
- Align exit plan with business goals and owner's objectives
- Consider different exit options (selling, passing to family, etc.)
- Optimize corporate structure for smoother transitions
- Ensure tax efficiency in transfer processes
- Retirement
Strategic Business Planning for Long-term Succession
- Who do you trust to continue the business?
- Conduct comprehensive business analysis
- Evaluate internal talent and leadership potential
- Implement succession planning programs
- Provide mentorship and training for potential successors
Trusted Legal Advisorsin Florida
The Law Office of Cameron H.P. White, P.A. is dedicated to providing smart counsel and creative yet practical solutions to their clients. The firm concentrates its practice on real estate, corporate and business transactions, wills/trusts and probate administration, and golf. The Firm is distinguished by the breadth and depth of its experience, superior service, and personal attention.
Contact us today to schedule a free consultation. Together, we will figure out your best next steps. The sooner you have a plan of action, the better your chances of taking the correct steps to get the desired results.
FAQ
Often referred to as a “last will and testament,” a will is a legal document that puts what you want to happen to your estate after you pass in writing. A will can also include other intentions you may have, the most common of which would be who you want to take care of your minor children, what you want to be done with your remains, and any other wishes you may feel are necessary.
If you pass away without a will, all the decisions that would have otherwise been covered in the will are made according to a state statute by a judge. It’s unlikely that these decisions will be the same as the ones you would have made. And even if there are no disagreements among family members, this probate process can take a long time and cost a lot of money.
A trust is a legal tool based on a “trust agreement” that allows you to transfer assets into it and still have access to those assets while living. Upon your passing, these assets can be distributed to your heirs directly without going through probate. Plus, if you should become incapacitated due to an illness or injury, a beneficiary you choose manages the assets in the trust. Without trust, a court decides who will manage your assets.
Another advantage of a trust is that it is considered a private legal agreement between two individuals, the grantor and the trustee, and avoids probate court, so it isn’t required to be included in public records. This means your family’s private financial information is kept private.
When you sign an agreement with a vendor to do a major project on your house, such as adding a room or putting on a new roof, that agreement usually says that if you don't pay on time, the company can put a lien on your house. That means if you sell the house before you pay off the debt, the company will get paid out of the proceeds from the sale. However, sometimes when people pay off these types of debts, the vendor neglects to remove the lien, which shows up years later when trying to sell the house.
More often than not, this is a simple matter of contacting the vendor and asking them to remove the lien. But what if the company has gone out of business? Those kinds of problems can take a title agent weeks or months to untangle and resolve correctly so that the sale can go through.
Even when a divorce settlement stipulates who gets the house, they are co-owned as a married couple, which doesn't automatically make its way into all the paperwork with your county’s property appraiser. So, as far as they are concerned, you are both still owners of the house, which will be discovered with a basic title search. This is easily resolved in most cases by filing a quitclaim deed, which both former spouses sign, stating that one spouse now has complete ownership of the property.
And if you parted amicably, this should be a relatively easy process. However, if the ex-spouse refuses to cooperate, that can cause delays. While there are legal remedies available in such cases, they can be complicated and time-consuming.
Sometimes, surveys of adjacent properties conflict, which could lead a neighbor to claim that part of the property you own is theirs. Typically, a dispute like this is with another homeowner, but it could also involve a Homeowners Association or municipal government.
Handled correctly, it can often be resolved easily, especially if it doesn't involve a major overlap. It can get messy if a substantial piece of the property is disputed or a structure has been built in the area in question.
