Updating Your Estate Plan After Divorce, Marriage, or a Move to Florida
Divorced, remarried, or relocated to Palm Beach? Learn when and how to update your Florida estate plan to protect high-net-worth assets and heirs.
June 23, 2026
Divorced, remarried, or relocated to Palm Beach? Learn when and how to update your Florida estate plan to protect high-net-worth assets and heirs.
How Florida Medicaid asset protection planning works: the 5-year look-back, irrevocable trusts, homestead, and what high-net-worth families should know.
A Palm Beach estate attorney compares Florida revocable living trusts vs. wills—probate, homestead, asset protection, and which one fits your family.
How Florida trust administration works after the grantor dies: trustee duties, the 60-day notice, creditor steps, and timelines under Chapter 736.
How to name a guardian for your minor children in a Florida estate plan, plus the trust and asset-protection steps Palm Beach families should not skip.
How Florida’s 30% elective share and homestead rights protect a surviving spouse in Palm Beach, compared with disinheritance and joint planning.
How a Florida pour-over will backs up your revocable trust in Palm Beach, compared with a standard will and a fully funded trust.
How Florida residents reduce federal estate tax through lifetime gifting, trusts, and exemption planning. Palm Beach estate planning attorney guidance.
Beneficiary designations on accounts override your Florida will. Learn how they work, where they fail, and how to protect high-net-worth assets in Palm Beach.
Florida joint ownership and survivorship pitfalls: how survivorship rights override your will, expose assets to creditors, and undo estate plans.
How to include digital assets and online accounts in your Florida estate plan under the Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act. Palm Beach attorney guidance.
DIY forms, online services, and hiring a Florida attorney compared for Palm Beach estate plans, including homestead and witness pitfalls.
How special needs trusts protect a disabled beneficiary’s Medicaid and SSI in Florida. Palm Beach estate planning attorney explains first-party, third-party, and pooled trusts.
How to fund a revocable trust correctly in Florida—retitling real estate, accounts, business interests, and avoiding probate. Palm Beach estate planning guidance.
How Florida couples in second marriages coordinate prenups, trusts, and elective-share waivers to protect children and high-net-worth assets.
How to make a valid will in Florida, for Palm Beach residents—comparing handwritten, DIY, and attorney-drafted wills against §732.502 requirements.
Compare ways Palm Beach pet owners can care for animals after death—from will gifts to Florida pet trusts under §736.0408. What actually holds up.
Common Florida power of attorney mistakes in Palm Beach—springing clauses, missing authority, banks that refuse—and the alternatives that avoid them.
A side-by-side look at the core Florida estate planning documents every Palm Beach adult needs, what each one does, and where each falls short.
How Florida trusts, spendthrift clauses, and staggered distributions protect an inheritance for spendthrift or young heirs. A Palm Beach attorney explains.
A Palm Beach estate planning attorney explains how to avoid probate in Florida using trusts, beneficiary designations, and titling strategies.
Compare outright gifts, custodial accounts, and trusts for protecting a Palm Beach inheritance left to young or spendthrift heirs under Florida law.
A practical, asset-by-asset comparison of how to fund a Florida revocable living trust in Palm Beach, so it actually avoids probate.
How Florida’s elective share gives a surviving spouse 30% of the elective estate, what counts, and how high-net-worth couples plan around it lawfully.
Single in Palm Beach? Compare a Florida will, revocable trust, and beneficiary designations to control your estate and avoid intestacy and probate.
Incapacity planning in Florida protects you while you’re alive. Learn the durable POA, health care surrogate, and trusts Palm Beach families need.
A Palm Beach estate planning checklist comparing the will-based, trust-based, and beneficiary-designation routes—plus Florida homestead and probate basics.
How a pour-over will works with a Florida living trust to catch stray assets, the probate trade-offs, and what high-net-worth families should know.
Palm Beach young families: compare a Florida will, revocable trust, and guardian designation to protect kids and your homestead. What fits a growing family.
Avoid the most common Florida estate planning mistakes. A Palm Beach attorney explains homestead, funding trusts, witnessing rules, and asset protection traps.
