Updating Your Estate Plan After Divorce, Marriage, or a Move to Florida
Divorced, remarried, or moved to Florida? Learn how FL law (homestead, elective share, beneficiary rules) changes your estate plan and what to update now.
June 23, 2026
Divorced, remarried, or moved to Florida? Learn how FL law (homestead, elective share, beneficiary rules) changes your estate plan and what to update now.
Photos, crypto, email, and online accounts outlive us. Here is how Key West residents can plan for digital assets under Florida law.
A Florida estate attorney explains the core documents every adult needs: will, durable POA, health care surrogate, living will, and trust planning.
A plain-English guide to the four core estate planning documents every adult in Key West, FL should have, under Florida law.
A Florida estate attorney explains how to avoid probate using trusts, beneficiary designations, lady bird deeds, and joint ownership — plus blended-family pitfalls.
The estate planning mistakes that trip up Key West families, from invalid wills to forgotten beneficiaries, and how Florida law treats each.
Why beneficiary designations override your will in Florida, and how Key West families can keep retirement accounts and life insurance on track.
A Key West guide to Florida spousal rights: the 30% elective share, homestead protection, and why a spouse cannot be quietly cut out.
Second marriages and stepchildren make Florida estate planning tricky. A plain-English guide for blended families in Key West, FL.
Adding a name to your Key West home or account feels simple, but joint ownership in Florida can backfire. Learn the traps before you sign.
How joint ownership and right of survivorship can derail a Florida estate plan, especially in blended families and second marriages. Avoid the common traps.
How to include digital assets and online accounts in your Florida estate plan under the Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act. Key Largo to Key West.
A plain-English Key West guide to pour-over wills: how they pair with a Florida revocable trust, what they catch, and why probate may still apply.
How Florida Lady Bird (enhanced life estate) deeds avoid probate, protect homestead, and help second marriages and blended families pass on a home.
How Key West families use Florida trusts and spendthrift provisions to protect an inheritance for young, struggling, or impulsive heirs.
From the Key West reef to local causes, learn plain-English ways to build charitable giving into a Florida estate plan that fits your family.
How Florida’s 30% elective share protects a surviving spouse, what counts in the estate, and how blended families can plan around it. Key West estate planning.
Married, divorced, or welcomed a baby in Key West? Here is how Florida law changes your estate plan and what to update right away.
