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The Executor's Guide to Probate: Florida
A 15-page guide and estate workbook for a Florida personal representative: whether probate is needed, the simpler options, formal administration and its creditor deadlines, homestead and family protections, and closing, with an inventory, expense log and notification list.
General information, not legal or tax advice. Florida generally requires a personal representative to be represented by a Florida attorney.
What's inside
- The first weeksA first-two-weeks checklist, how assets pass and depositing the will.
- Simpler optionsWho may serve, summary administration and disposition without administration.
- Formal administrationAppointment, the notices of administration and to creditors, and the inventory.
- Family protectionsFlorida homestead, exempt property and the elective share.
- Debts and closingClaim priorities, distribution, fees and federal tax duties.
- WorkbookAn estate inventory, estate bank account and expense log, and who to notify.
Details
- One fillable PDF, 15 pages, letter size
- Type on screen in Adobe Acrobat Reader (free), Preview on Mac, or most browsers, or print it
- Florida edition; state law cited as of November 2026
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Small claims, deeds, probate and landlord-tenant guides for Texas, Florida and California, with Oklahoma editions of small claims, deeds and probate.
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