Estate Planning, Elder Law, & Asset Protection Law Firm in Aventura, Florida

Law Offices of Barbara Buxton, P.A.

Aventura Corporate Center 20801 Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 400 Aventura, Florida 33180 USA

 (305) 932-2293

www.buxtonlaw.com
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Law Firm Overview

At the Law Offices of Barbara Buxton, P.A., we take a personal interest in our clients. As a small multi-practice law firm, we have built a solid reputation in South Florida for providing high caliber legal services, while being cost-effective and responsive to clients' needs. Whether we are preparing your estate plan, ensuring that your rights and assets are protected or assisting you with Florida probate, Florida Medicaid planning, nursing home Medicaid benefits, elder law or guardianship, our staff is here to serve you.

Barbara Buxton, P.A. is the founder of the Firm which focuses on Florida probate, estate & trust administration, ancillary probate, inheritance law, summary probate, probate administration, estate & trust litigation, interstate succession, estate planning, real estate and elder law. Barbara is a member of the Florida State Bar, Miami-Dade & Broward County Bar Association, and Jewish Federation Professional Advisory Committee. She is admitted as an attorney to the Florida & Texas Bars.

At the Law Offices of Barbara Buxton, P.A., we help our clients in the counties of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach to decide in advance and for themselves how their estate and business will be passed from them to their loved ones. We advise our clients on how to avoid probate, arrange their affairs to ensure that their estate is distributed the way they wish; preserve wealth; plan for the possibility of incapacity and long-term care; minimize or eliminate estate taxes; and plan for the passing of a family business from one generation to the next. We also help clients protect their assets the high cost of long-term care, possible lawsuits and creditors.

Our goal is to help clients develop comprehensive lifetime and estate plans that address age-related concerns; wealth preservation strategies, including protecting the assets they have accumulated from being consumed by nursing home costs; and distributing their estate. Our law firm is a well-respected provider of high quality, cost-effective legal services in South Florida. While we primarily serve clients throughout South Florida, we also represent clients throughout the state and the country that have family or property in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Living Wills; Life Care Planning; Nursing Home Planning; Trust Administration; Guardianship and Guardianship Litigation; Health Care Surrogates; Deeds; Planning for Disability and Incapacity of Adults; Special Needs Trusts; Post-Nuptial Agreements; Family Limited Partnerships; Business Succession Planning; Charitable Planning; Liquidity Planning; Gift Planning; Advanced Health Care Directives; Durable Powers of Attorney; Conservatorship; Long Term Care Planning; Assistance Obtaining Veteran's Benefits; Homesteads; Warranty Deeds

Practice Areas Description

The Law Offices of Barbara Buxton, P.A. provides legal representation and services in the following areas of practice:

- Estate Planning

Estate Planning is the process whereby a person develops a plan and prepares documents to conserve, protect, and distribute estate assets before and after death for the benefit of loved ones and charities, taking into consideration the effect of state and federal tax and administrative laws and regulations. It can also involve planning for the use of your assets for your care if you become unable to manage your affairs during your lifetime.

- Wills and Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Living Wills

With an advanced Master of Laws in Estate Planning degree (LL.M.), Florida Estate Planning attorney and Wills, Trusts and Estates lawyer, Ms. Buxton handles all aspects of estate planning, including creating wills and trusts, powers of attorney, living wills, warranty deeds and pre and post-nuptial agreements; business planning; asset protection planning and wealth preservation planning; planning for incapacity and disability; and minimizing or eliminating federal and state tax liability. A Revocable Living Trust is usually recommended as the cornerstone of our clients’ estate plan. A fully funded Revocable Living Trust offers complete control to clients during their lifetime, provides for them and their loved ones in the event of their incapacity and on death allows them to pass their assets to their loved ones without the costs, delays and publicity associated with probate.

- Elder Law / Life Care Planning

An Elder Law attorney concentrates on the areas of the law that focus on legal issues affecting elders, their spouse and/or their children, such as aging, disability, incapacity, illness, and long term care and nursing home planning. The Elder Law lawyer also reviews contracts with nursing homes, arrangements with individuals who will provide services to the elderly and agreements where property is being sold or transferred. In addition, an Elder Law attorney reviews health insurance, home care, and long term care policies.

- Medicaid Planning and Eligibility

By qualifying for Florida Medicaid benefits, the applicant will be covered for nursing home expenses, drugs, doctors, and medical equipment. Therefore, qualifying for Florida Medicaid can be worth $60,000.00 a year or more in benefits to the applicant and/or his or her spouse and family. Currently, there are also government programs that can also assist family members in an assisted living facility. The Florida Medicaid rules for eligibility are confusing and complicated. It is important that planning for Medicaid is only done with a qualified Florida Elder Law & Medicaid Attorney so that the strategies used are best suited for your family's individual situation. By waiting to get expert advice, or not getting it at all, you may spend more money than you should, thus jeopardizing your family's security.

- Nursing Home Planning

We will customize a plan for your family using strategies that will preserve as much of your assets as is legally possible and qualify your loved one for Florida Nursing Home Medicaid or the Florida Long-term Care Diversion program. We will make the process simple and easy by always giving detailed explanations and updates, and promptly addressing your questions and concerns. By using all available techniques, we are able to obtain maximum monthly Florida Medicaid benefits for our clients.

- Probate, Estate, Trust Administration

At the Law Offices of Barbara Buxton, P.A., we take pride in our strong and active practice in the areas of Florida probate and trust administration, and estates. Barbara Buxton understands the intricacies of Florida probate law and is involved in all aspects of estate, probate and trust administration. Ms. Buxton and her staff are dedicated to representing clients as their Miami Dade probate attorney, Broward County probate attorney and Palm Beach County probate attorney with personal attention and the utmost professionalism and compassion.

- Guardianship and Guardianship Litigation

With proper estate planning most guardianships can be avoided by executing trusts, a durable power of attorney, health care surrogate and living will and by choosing trustworthy fiduciaries. However, if a guardianship is unavoidable, it is important to have an attorney who has experience representing families filing for guardianships. We have many years of experience in this area of the law and will guide you through the process.

- Gift & Estate Tax Planning

At the Law Offices of Barbara Buxton, P.A., we advise clients on all aspects of federal and state gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxation. This level of tax planning generally applies to wealthy individuals and their families who face potentially heavy estate and gift taxes. Although these clients face exposure to high federal and state taxes, we structure plans that reduce or even eliminate these taxes through lifetime and post-mortem planning. In addition, we represent family businesses and handle many non-tax legal matters.

- Asset Protection Planning

We begin asset protection planning with a comprehensive review of a client's estate, short and long term goals, and general situation. By discussing options with our clients, and the consequences flowing from those options, we are able to find the level of asset protection that provides an acceptable combination of affordability, flexibility, and effectiveness for each client.

- Real Estate Transactions

Our South Florida law firm represents clients in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties in all aspects of their Florida real estate matters, including reviewing, revising and amending condominium or association documents, reviewing and preparing all closing documents to ensure clear title, and representing clients at both residential and commercial real estate closings.

Attorneys

Barbara Buxton, J.D., LL.M. Attorney Estate and Trust, Estate Planning, Family Law, Health Care, Litigation

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