Lawyers Helping You Prepare for the Future • Seminole, Florida
At The Law Offices of DeLoach & Hofstra, P.A., our role is to answer your questions and help you choose the estate planning strategy that best fits your needs. We are large enough to help plan even the most complex estates, but we are small enough to provide the personal, attentive service every client deserves.
Our lead estate planning lawyer D. "Rep" DeLoach III is one of only 76 Florida Bar Board Certified Elder Law Attorneys* in the state of Florida. Through a combination of wills, trusts and strategic asset placement, he can help protect the estate you have worked long and hard to build.
To schedule an initial consultation to explore your estate planning options, call us at 727.475.6680 or contact our offices online.
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Working to Accomplish Your Goals
Every individual and every couple has a different reason for wanting to plan their estate. Whatever your goals, we will work with you to help make sure they come to fruition:
- Wills and Trusts: we can help you direct how and to whom your estate will be distributed after your death.
- Plan for Medicaid: we can help protect your estate from the draining costs of long-term care. With proper elder law and Medicaid planning, you may be able to keep your estate intact to provide better care for yourself and to better provide for your family.
- Avoid Probate: in Florida, probate can be a very public, very draining process, although it may not be the horrible process some believe. With the right planning, you can help avoid probate, saving your heirs time and money. We also handle probate litigation in case a conflict arises.
- Special Needs Trusts: does one of your beneficiaries have special needs, needing government benefits for support? With the correct planning, we can make sure the beneficiary is cared for and the assets preserved for his or her benefit.
- Living Wills: if you are ever in a persistent vegetative state or likewise condition at the end of your life, what should happen? Both a living will and a "health care surrogate designation" can let you and your family prepare for this possibility.
- Powers of Attorney: using a durable power of attorney, you can designate someone to make decisions for you in the event become unable to for yourself.
- Pets: should something happen to you, will your pets be cared for? There are a variety of options we have in this arena.
We Simplify the Process
Depending on the size and nature of your estate, estate planning can be a very complex process. We work to make the process simpler. We avoid legal jargon, so that when you have to make important decisions, those decisions will be fully informed.
To schedule an initial consultation to discuss estate planning with attorney D. "Rep" DeLoach III, call us at 727.475.6680 or contact our offices any time.
*Certified the Florida Bar Association
