Florida Estate Planning
Learning Center
Plain-language guides to Florida estate planning and probate — written for Florida families from Florida’s own statutes and rules, cited so you can read them yourself.
Getting Started
The Florida Estate Planning checklist
The core Florida documents and decisions, in plain language — so you can see the whole picture and start with the gaps.
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Probate
Choosing a personal representative (executor) in Florida
Florida calls the executor a "personal representative" — and the state has specific rules about who can serve. Here is how to choose.
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Wills
Naming a guardian for your children in Florida
For Florida parents, this is the most important reason to make a will. Here is how to choose — and why naming a backup matters.
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Trusts
How to fund a Florida living trust
An unfunded trust is just paper. Here is how to actually move your Florida assets in — including the homestead question.
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Probate & Trusts
Beneficiary designations: the part of your Florida plan people forget
Your retirement account and life insurance ignore your will entirely — and in Florida they feed the spousal elective share. The overlooked rule that catches families off guard.
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Trusts & Asset Protection
Does a Florida living trust protect assets from creditors?
One of the most common — and costly — Florida misconceptions. What a revocable trust actually does, and what really protects assets in Florida.
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Healthcare Directives
Florida living will vs. health care surrogate
One records your wishes; the other names a decision-maker. In Florida they are separate documents — and most people need both.
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The statute explainers & guide library
Who inherits
Wills
Trusts
Probate
Every page in the Learning Center states Florida law generally, with citations to the statutes it describes. None of it is legal advice, and reading it creates no attorney-client relationship — for advice about your situation, consult a licensed Florida attorney.
General information about Florida law, not legal advice. EstateDraftFL is software, not a law firm.