As December is coming to a close and we near the end of 2015, I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a safe and Happy Holidays. This is the time of year to spend with your family and close friends, to reminisce about the previous year and what it brought, and to wonder…
Sometimes a trial depends on the testimony of an expert, someone who is held to have knowledge of a specialized kind within a particular field or of a particular concept. The average person is prohibited by the evidence rules (in Florida, at least) from testifying to such specialized items, as they are generally beyond the…
When buying or selling Real Estate, a sometimes over-looked facet of the property being transferred is its allowable zoning. You might have heard about “zones” when watching a football game or other sports event, and there are even other “zones” that we hear of in our lives (e.g., war zones, zones of danger, etc.). But…
A variety of different business entities operate in Florida, each with its own characteristics and structure. The main way to discern the type of business entity you are dealing with is from the ending of the business’s full name – whether Inc., LLC, P.A., LLP, etc. These endings tend to form an “alphabet soup” that…
Today, privacy can be hard to come by. It is a rather valuable commodity, particularly when considering all the ways a person’s information is, or can be made, public. People have, unsurprisingly, been searching for ways to reduce the ever-increasing likelihood that their actions – including their estate-related activities – will be made public. An…
In a Landlord-Tenant relationship, there is always the possibility of bad blood developing between the owner (or lessor) of real estate and the tenant (or lessee) who leases that real estate. One of the more common reasons for such bad blood comes from disputes surrounding the payment, or lack thereof, of rent. There might even…