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Acquisition of an Asset by a Maiden-Name Couple: Another Estate Planning Event

Posted on September 12, 2016 Written by Paul M. Stokes Leave a Comment

During the late 60s and the decade of the 70s, women who married retained their maiden names more often than they did in prior years.  Sometimes the couple hyphenated their surnames during those times, but in a lot of cases the non-traditionalist wife simply carried on the surname that her parents used.  (Last year, a […]

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Inconvenient Bank Accounts; Family Rift

Posted on February 14, 2016 Written by Paul M. Stokes Leave a Comment

Back in the 1990s, Mrs. Bivins, a widow from New York, lived near the Gables. She had two daughters, one who lived in New York with her husband, a doctor, and another, a single, working mom, a widow herself, who lived in West Miami with her two sons. The New York daughter and her husband […]

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Paul M. Stokes works at Stokes McMillan Antunez, P.A., received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School, and is Board Certified by the Florida Bar in Wills, Trusts & Estates.

This site focuses on Florida law and is for educational purposes only. It is not a substitute for an engagement with a competent attorney. The events in the posts do not identify actual clients. Those events are sufficiently fictional to preserve confidentiality. In telling his stories, however, the author does not compromise the points being made.

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