Florida Estate Planning Lawyer Blog

David Goldman of Apple Law Firm, Florida Estate Planning Lawyer Blog, and NFA Gun Trust Lawyer Blog became a member of the Estate Planning Professionals network (EPPN) of the NRA. The next EPPN event will be held in conjunction with the NRA Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina in May 2010.

As a member of the EPPN, David can modify wills and trusts with language that can be added to Florida Wills and Trusts to make bequests to the national Rifle Association or any of the NRA charities or endowments.

Florida Revocable Trust's as well as those created in other states often have language that provides for the health, education, maintenance, and support of our spouses and children. Recently I was reading an article written by a CA Estate Planning Lawyer and firearms instructor on providing firearms training as an option within the definition of education. David R. Duringer wrote an article entitled Does the Definition of Education in Your Revocable Trust Allow for Firearms Training? and while it is a short article and only deals with firearms education, it got me thinking about other types of education and training that may be important to your beneficiaries or family tradition that you may want to include in your traditional revocable trust. Obviously this is something that would make sense to provide for in a NFA Gun Trust or a firearms trust designed specifically for firearms. In David's article he goes on to state

Such training can provide your children with the comfort of skill at arms so they can protect themselves and their own children, and furthermore, passes on American values necessary to preserve political independence of families in our society. Other benefits of such training can include increased personal responsibility and lower juvenile delinquency rates.

You may even want to go further with an incentive trust provision actually requiring this training, possibly with achievement standards.

Often a Florida Revocable Trust is not modified promptly upon a divorce. If the trust is subject to Florida law, Florida Statutes 736.1105 can amend the trust when the prior spouse is named as a beneficiary and the other spouse creates the trust.

736.1105 Dissolution of marriage; effect on revocable trust.--Unless the trust instrument or the judgment for dissolution of marriage or divorce expressly provides otherwise, if a revocable trust is executed by a husband or wife as settlor prior to annulment of the marriage or entry of a judgment for dissolution of marriage or divorce of the settlor from the settlor's spouse, any provision of the trust that affects the settlor's spouse will become void upon annulment of the marriage or entry of the judgment of dissolution of marriage or divorce and any such trust shall be administered and construed as if the settlor's spouse had died on the date of the annulment or on entry of the judgment for dissolution of marriage or divorce.

If you have a joint trust that was not addressed in a divorce decree or anulent or have recently been divorced, you should Contact a Florida Estate Planning Lawyer to review your trust to make sure that your ex-spouse is treated as per your intentions and not what your documents state.

A new concept in Estate planning is creating a trust to protect the families firearms. For the past few years the public has been using NFA Firearms Trusts for the purchase and protection of Title II firearms that are restricted by the NFA. Most gun enthusiast expect there to be a renewed ban on Assault Weapons that becomes permanent. To protect your families assault weapons, you might consider a new twist to the firearms trust - the Assault Weapons Trust. It might be a good idea to transfer your Assault Weapons into a Assault Weapons Trust before there is a ban on future transfers of these firearms.

As many of you have noticed the Firearms articles on this site have been transitioned to the NFA Gun Trust Lawyer website. If you are in Florida or South Carolina and are looking for a Florida Gun Trust Lawyer or South Carolina Gun Trust Lawyer Contact us or visit NFA Gun Trust Lawyer website for more information. If you are looking or a gun trust in another state you can contact the Apple Law Firm or NFA Gun Trust Lawyer website.

NFA Gun Trust Lawyer blog has an article on the 150 + page decision issued today in the gun rights case before the Supreme Court. Looks like good news for gun owners but it will take sometime to digest the full opinion which is over 150 pages. There is a link to the Supreme Court Gun Case also

What happens if Grandpa needs to Nursing home coverage and he owns a Class3 weapon like a Machine Gun?

Class 3 weapons or those controlled by the National Firearms Act are not exempt assets when it comes to Medicaid Planning.

There are ways to preserve these assets for your family but it involves converting the asset from an exempt asset to a non-exempt asset. On my other blog, Gun Trust Lawyer I wrote a Gun Trust Information article addressing this issue.

If you or your family has a person who needs nursing home coverage and they have war relics which may include a Machine Gun you should Contact a Florida Estate Planning Lawyer to discuss your situation.

A new Blog ( Gun Trust Lawyer ) dedicated to Gun Trusts and issues related to the ownership of class 3 weapons (which I started) has an article on a man who was arrested for an improper transfer of a unknown class 3 machine gun.

His gun misfired and was reclassified as a Machine Gun. This along with allowing a potential buyer to shoot it at a range resulted in the invalid transfer of a Class 3 Weapon, a crime punishable under the NFA with a sentence of up to 10 years in jail.

These are the types of transfers a NFA FIREARMS TRUST can help prevent.

The is the link to the article on Invalid Class 3 Gun Transfer

Tennessee has joined the growing list of states in which we have a relationship with a lawyer who is familiar with the (NFA) National Firearms Act's requirements relating to the formation of trusts to purchase Class 3 weapons. These include silencers, short barrel rifles, and machine guns.

If you are looking to create a Tennessee NFA Firearms Trust, please Contact us and we can help make sure your trust deals with the many unique issues surrounding owning these firearms in a Revocable Trust

If you live in Tennessee or another state and wish to create a NFA trust to protect your family and purchase NFA Class 3 or Class 1 firearms Contact a NFA lawyer in your state

If you are a lawyer licensed in any state and would like to work with us to provide NFA trusts to clients in your state, please Contact David Goldman a Florida Gun Trust Lawyer.

Florida Governor Charlie Crist today signed important National Rifle Association (NRA)-backed legislation into law that will protect the existing rights of law-abiding gun owners. House Bill 503 preserves the self-defense rights of law-abiding men and women as they travel in their cars to and from their daily activities.

"Customers and workers should not have to choose between protecting themselves or following the political policies of an anti-gun business," said NRA Past President Marion P. Hammer. "The right to protect oneself must be maintained no matter where you park your car."

This legislation protects the rights of gun owners to possess a firearm in any private motor vehicle in a parking lot, and prevents businesses from searching private vehicles of customers or employees.

"This is a great day for the people of the state of Florida," concluded Hammer. "Their right to keep and bear arms for self-defense and other lawful purposes has been restored."

Virginia has joined the growing list of states in which we have a relationship with a lawyer who is familiar with the (NFA) National Firearms Act's requirements relating to the formation of trusts to purchase Class 3 weapons. These include silencers, short barrel rifles, and machine guns.

If you are looking to create a Virginia NFA Firearms Trust, please Contact us and we can help make sure your trust deals with the many unique issues surrounding owning these firearms in a Revocable Trust

If you live in Virginia or another state and wish to create a NFA trust to protect your family and purchase NFA Class 3 or Class 1 firearms Contact a NFA lawyer in your state

If you are a lawyer licensed in any state and would like to work with us to provide NFA trusts to clients in your state, please Contact David Goldman a Florida Gun Trust Lawyer.

The Florida Legislature has passed a bill allowing employees to keep gun in their cars while at work. Currently employers have been able to prohibit employees from keeping guns in their cars while on company parking lots. The new bill will allow workers to leave their personal weapons in their vehicles on company owned parking lots.

Louisiana has joined the growing list of states in which we have a relationship with a lawyer who is familiar with the (NFA) National Firearms Act's requirements relating to the formation of trusts to purchase Class 3 weapons. These include silencers, short barrel rifles, and machine guns.

If you are looking to create a Louisiana NFA Firearms Trust, please Contact us and we can help make sure your trust deals with the many unique issues surrounding owning these firearms in a Revocable Trust

If you live in Louisiana or another state and wish to create a NFA trust to protect your family and purchase NFA Class 3 or Class 1 firearms Contact a NFA lawyer in your state

If you are a lawyer licensed in any state and would like to work with us to provide NFA trusts to clients in your state, please Contact David Goldman a Florida Gun Trust Lawyer.

Ohio has joined the growing list of states in which we have a relationship with a lawyer who is familiar with the (NFA) National Firearms Act's requirements relating to the formation of trusts to purchase Class 3 weapons. These include silencers, short barrel rifles, and machine guns.

If you are looking to create a Ohio NFA Firearms Trust, please Contact us and we can help make sure your trust deals with the many unique issues surrounding owning these firearms in a Revocable Trust

If you live in Ohio or another state and wish to create a NFA trust to protect your family and purchase NFA Class 3 or Class 1 firearms Contact a NFA lawyer in your state

If you are a lawyer licensed in any state and would like to work with us to provide NFA trusts to clients in your state, please Contact David Goldman a Florida Gun Trust Lawyer.

Nebraska has joined the growing list of states in which we have a relationship with a lawyer who is familiar with the (NFA) National Firearms Act's requirements relating to the formation of trusts to purchase Class 3 weapons. These include silencers, short barrel rifles, and machine guns.

If you are looking to create a Nebraska NFA Firearms Trust, please Contact us and we can help make sure your trust deals with the many unique issues surrounding owning these firearms in a Revocable Trust

If you live in Indiana or another state and wish to create a NFA trust to protect your family and purchase NFA Class 3 or Class 1 firearms Contact a NFA lawyer in your state

If you are a lawyer licensed in any state and would like to work with us to provide NFA trusts to clients in your state, please Contact David Goldman a Florida Gun Trust Lawyer.