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Law Office of Petrovitch & Kutub, PA

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📝✨ Putting your wishes in writing is crucial! If you pass away without a will (intestate), your assets might end up with people you never intended. 📜💔 Protect your loved ones and ensure your wishes are honored. In Florida, stepchildren and fiancés are not entitled to inherit under intestate laws. According to Florida Statute § 732.103, assets will pass to the closest blood relatives, often leaving out those you might have considered family. 🏠🔒 Don't let the state decide for you. Make your intentions clear and secure your legacy today. #EstatePlanning #Wills #ProtectYourLovedOnes #LegacyMatters #PlanAhead #FamilyFirst

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I want to talk about the importance of putting into writing what your wishes are if you were to pass away, and I always say this to clients that I meet with. If you pass away tomorrow without a will, how do you want your assets to pass? What are your goals? What do you want to happen? A perfect example is appropriate that we're doing right now in which the decedent had a long term girlfriend for talking 20 to 30 years. They were living together in the same residence. They had everything separate, but they were together. Come as a couple. Now the problem is he never put into writing what he wanted to happen when he passed away and then we can assume he wanted everything to go to the girlfriend, but we have no idea. And so we're now stuck in the situation where we're having to probate his intestate estates. Now the girlfriend doesn't have any standing in his family is the one that's probating. Some of the most common things we see are stepchildren and girlfriends, boyfriends, fiancees trying to state or you know say, oh we were supposed to inherit. That's what their intent was but. Girlfriends, boyfriends, fiances, stepchildren, they don't inherit in intestate probates, so or intestate estates. So if you want to leave something to somebody that's not an air. So we're talking about direct children, parents, siblings, cousins, people that are related to you, you're going to want to put that in writing. It's very, very important. There's so many times that we probate estates in which there are stepchildren that we, you know, have records, records or writings in which the decedent. That I want everything to go to my stepchildren, but it wasn't a proper will or trust and it ends up going to other people that they didn't want to inherit. So it's crucial that you put it into writing what you want to happen to your state if you were to pass away. If you have questions about an estate plan or probates, give us a call today, 561-444-0131 or visit our website at www.pklegalgroup.com.

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