Estate and Succession Planning
Dean Mead’s Estate and Succession Planning Department is one of the largest and most respected groups of estate planning attorneys in Florida. We are frequently…
Dean Mead’s Estate and Succession Planning Department is one of the largest and most respected groups of estate planning attorneys in Florida. We are frequently…
Dean Mead’s Tax Department handles tax planning issues for businesses and individuals. The attorneys in our department have extensive experience in a full range of…
In Morey v. Everbank, Florida’s First District Court of Appeals held that life insurance proceeds payable to a revocable trust were available to pay the claims of creditors of the settlor’s estate. Generally, insurance proceeds are exempt from the claims of creditors of the insured. An exception to this rule is when the insurance proceeds…
Read MoreIf Congress takes no action with respect to individual tax rates prior to 2013, then individual tax rates will revert automatically to their pre-2003 levels, which would mean that the highest marginal individual income tax rates will jump from 35% to 39.6% (a comparison of the 2012 and estimated 2013 individual marginal income tax rates,…
Read MoreFour Dean Mead attorneys offered a three hour CPE approved seminar on Tuesday, September 25, 2012 to the members of the Brevard County FICPA. Program topics included: Description: Topic/Speaker 1: Topic: The End of the Perfect Storm of Estate Planning is Nearing (Maybe!) – Planning for the Remainder of 2012 Speakers: Robert J. Naberhaus III…
Read MoreDean, Mead, Egerton, Bloodworth, Capouano & Bozarth, P.A. announced today that Best Lawyers in America, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named Lauren Y. Detzel as the Best Lawyers’ 2013 Orlando Litigation – Trusts & Estates “Lawyer of the Year”. She is the only estate planning attorney in Central…
Read MoreSEVENTEEN DEAN MEAD ATTORNEYS NAMED TO 2013 BEST LAWYERS® Orlando, Fla. – Seventeen Dean Mead attorneys in 11 legal fields were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2013® (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc. of Aiken, South Carolina). The 2013 fields of practice and attorneys include: Area of Practice…
Read MoreOne of the new changes enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”) was an amendment to §7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act (the “FLSA”) to provide for reasonable break time and a place for non-exempt, nursing mothers, to express milk. The Act amended the FLSA to require that employers provide “reasonable…
Read MoreOn December 17, 2010, Congress enacted the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (the “2010 Act”), which substantially increased the amount of property an individual could gift during their lifetime free of gift tax. Specifically, the 2010 Act raised the lifetime gift tax exemption from $1 million in 2010 to…
Read MoreNow that the Supreme Court has ruled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) constitutional, it’s time to take a closer look at what the law means to you. Under the ACA, insurers must pay for certain preventive and screening services to identify problems early when treatments have a greater likelihood of success at…
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