This week is welcomed by the holiday known as Celebration of Life Day.  Every January, it is a day to take the time to honor children and grandchildren in America. Each life is held to be a precious gift. However, sometimes we are too busy existing in life that we forget to actually live it, let alone stop to appreciate the people we love most. Hardly do we ever contemplate life after death and rarely do we stop to consider what will happen to our children after we pass away.  There can be no better way to show love and honor to our progeny than to protect them from future legal distress and financial insecurity after we are gone. Ensuring a brighter future for our children and grandchildren starts with estate planning and asset protection. The attorneys at Wild Felice & Partners are well-equipped with the necessary tools, legal knowledge, and expertise of South Florida estate planning strategies and asset structuring to ensure the financial stability of society’s most vulnerable individuals in order to guarantee the quality of life they deserve. Whether it’s a drafting a will or forming a trust, there are countless benefits to strategic estate planning. You can protect your children and grandchildren from potential lawsuits and creditor claims to your family life savings. You can protect your children against inadequate insurance coverage. You can eliminate the need for probate and reduce the burden of estate taxes. It is difficult to think of a better way to celebrate the life of your offspring and acknowledge them as precious gifts of life than to ensure their financial protection and shield them from unnecessary legal hassles after we are gone. In return, our children will be honoring us …on Remembrance of Death Day.

For more information on successful Florida estate planning and probate techniques, please contact the South Florida law firm of Wild Felice & Partners, P.A. at 954-944-2855 or via email at info@wfplaw.com to schedule your free consultation.

It’s a Wild world.  Are you protected?

The South Florida estate planning and wealth protection firm of Wild Felice & Partners, PA is proud to announce that managing partner Michael D. Wild has recently received an “AV® Preeminent Rating” by Martindale Hubbell.

An AV® certification rating is the highest rating provided by Martindale-Hubbell – a testament to the fact that a lawyer’s peers rank him/her at the highest level of ethical standards and legal ability, based on legal knowledge, analytical capabilities, jud…gment, communication ability, and legal experience.

We thank everyone who rated Michael with such a high distinction and we especially thank all of our clients and referral sources for the continued trust they place in Michael and in our firm for something as important as estate planning and asset protection.

AV Preeminent (4.5-5.0)– AV Preeminent is a significant rating accomplishment – a testament to the fact that a lawyer’s peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence.

For more information on successful Florida estate planning and probate techniques, please contact the South Florida law firm of Wild Felice & Partners, P.A. at 954-944-2855 or via email at info@wfplaw.com to schedule your free consultation.

It’s a Wild world.  Are you protected?

All too often, even after realizing the indispensability of a comprehensive South Florida estate plan – people try to cut corners.  When it comes to preserving hard-earned assets for posterity, being penny wise is not only pound-foolish. It may even be fatal to all your hard work, hopes, and dreams of perpetual prosperity for future progeny.

Why Not Do Estate Planning Yourself?

A plethora of workbooks full of fill-in-the-blank forms is available online and at local retailers. Some subscription-based websites offer downloadable standardized materials with audio or video instruction.

Although helpful, such resources are woefully ineffective estate planning tools. In the “game” of planning estates, what is good for the goose will not always work for the gander. Everyone has different needs and objectives. No two situations are exactly alike.

There is simply no substitute for the specialized expertise of a Florida estate planning attorney. As your legal representative, an attorney is legally and ethically bound to represent only your interests and desires when devising any estate plan on your behalf. The availability of free initial consultations gives you nothing to lose and everything to gain by consulting a qualified estate lawyer in Florida.

For more information on successful Florida estate planning and probate techniques, please contact the South Florida law firm of Wild Felice & Partners, P.A. at 954-944-2855 or via email at info@wfplaw.com to schedule your free consultation.

It’s a Wild world.  Are you protected?

As the end of 2011 approaches, Florida residents realize that 2012 is about to hit us smack in the face.  As a tradition, Americans tend to use the New Year as the motivation necessary to set goals for themselves to earn more, weigh less and even to be a better person.  While I am certain that some of you will work less, eat more and go about your lives in the same manner as you did this year, there is one resolution that cannot go unfulfilled: you MUST institute some form of South Florida Estate Planning this year.

You put it off each year because you know you aren’t going to die – until you do, of course.  Unlike joining a gym, which requires monthly payments and showering with strangers (which may be your thing so I don’t aim to judge), your Trust-based estate plan can be formulated during an hour long consultation and signed just a week later.  There are no monthly fees and my office doesn’t even have a shower.

If your resolution is to be a better parent or spouse, there is no better way than to protect your loved ones after you are gone.  A Revocable Trust can avoid probate, reduce estate taxes and provide asset protection for its beneficiaries.  If you love your kids, you’ll get one drafted soon.  Click here to schedule a free consultation with one of our South Florida Estate Planning Attorneys.

If your resolution is to quit smoking, I hope you are successful but the fact remains that you probably wont be.  That means that your living will and designation of health care surrogate had better be in order.

Each year we make resolutions and each year we have trouble keeping them.  I will make this promise to you.  If you complete your estate plan in January of 2012, I promise that you will stress less, spend less and be a better parent immediately.  Then you can feel free to take the rest of the year off.

For more information on successful Florida estate planning and probate techniques, please contact the South Florida law firm of Wild Felice & Partners, P.A. at 954-944-2855 or via email at info@wfplaw.com to schedule your free consultation.

It’s a Wild world.  Are you protected?

The Costanza-created holiday of Festivus is almost upon us and the people of South Florida are a flurry with excitement.  Whether you prefer the Feats of Strength or the Airing of Grievances, the holiday of Festivus has something for just about everyone.  Speaking of everyone, in this time of overlapping different holidays, it is important to remember the one commonality that we all share – mortality.  That’s right, whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Ramadan, the death rate in South Florida is 100 percent which means that every single one of you need estate planning.  We may not agree where our souls go after we die but there is no argument as to what happens to our stuff.  If you have no Will, the Florida Intestate Statutes will distribute your assets as the state of Florida decides.  If you have a Will but no Trust, your assets will first be dragged through the Florida probate process and then distributed outright to you beneficiaries.  If you have a Trust in place, your beneficiaries will be able to minimize both probate and the estate tax, as well as receive assets that are protected from creditors, litigation, bankruptcy and divorce.  Even for Frank Costanza, Trust-based estate planning is a no brainer.

Festivus is for Some but Estate Planning is for All

For more information on successful Florida estate planning and probate techniques, please contact the South Florida law firm of Wild Felice & Partners, P.A. at 954-944-2855 or via email at info@wfplaw.com to schedule your free consultation.

It’s a Wild world.  Are you protected?

This week, millions of Jewish families will be celebrating the anniversary of a miracle.  When there was only enough oil for one more night’s light, the oil ended up lasting 8 full nights.  Implementing a revocable living trust as the centerpiece of your South Florida estate plan will allow you to avoid Florida probate and estate taxes for a lot longer than that.  A revocable living trust can avoid probate upon your death and eliminate any estate tax burden, not to mention the ability to control your assets and protect your beneficiaries for up to 360 years after your death.  A revocable living trust is not a miracle; it’s just good planning.

For more information on successful Florida estate planning and probate techniques, please contact the South Florida law firm of Wild Felice & Pardo, P.A. at 954-944-2855 or via email at info@wfplaw.com to schedule your free consultation.

It’s a Wild world.  Are you protected?