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Probate

How To Use Estate Planning to Avoid Probate

Probate in Florida is time-consuming, expensive and public. Revocable living trusts, joint ownership and payable-on-death accounts are all ways to pass assets to your beneficiaries without going through it.

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Business

How To Avoid Using a Descriptive Trademark

Trademarks sit on a continuum from generic to arbitrary. Descriptive marks are weak and hard to register, so a suggestive or arbitrary mark gives the brand you built far stronger protection.

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Estate Planning

How Survivorship Life Insurance Helps in Estate Planning

Survivorship life insurance pays out only after both policyholders die, offering larger death benefits at lower premiums and bypassing probate. Learn when it fits an estate plan and when it does not.

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Real Estate

Housing Cooperatives: What UHF v. Forman Means for Real Estate Investors

In United Housing Foundation v. Forman, the Supreme Court held that shares bought only to occupy a nonprofit co-op apartment are not securities. Investors buying into a co-op for profit should look closer.

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