Preserving Legacies · Protecting Generations

Securing Your Legacy.
Protecting Your Family’s Tomorrow.

Compassionate legal guidance in estate planning, asset protection, and probate law. We make the complex simple so you can focus on what matters most.

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South Florida Estate Counsel

Safeguarding South Florida Legacies. From Brickell to the Beaches.

Strategic estate planning, wealth preservation, and probate administration tailored to Florida’s unique constitutional protections.

The Lastre Law Firm

Planning today creates clarity for generations.

Your estate plan is more than a collection of documents. It is a coordinated strategy for protecting the people, property, business interests, and values that define your legacy.

The Lastre Law Firm is designed to guide South Florida families through estate planning, wealth preservation, incapacity planning, probate administration, and fiduciary disputes with compassion and precision.

Every engagement begins with careful listening. We identify what matters most, explain available legal structures in plain language, and develop a plan responsive to family dynamics, Florida law, tax exposure, and long-term goals.

Core Legal Services

Comprehensive counsel through every stage of legacy planning.

01

Estate Planning The Foundation

Protect your wealth and ensure your wishes are honored exactly as you intend.

  • Last Will and Testament: Direct asset distribution and nominate guardians for minor children.
  • Revocable Living Trusts: Coordinate private transfers and reduce avoidable probate exposure.
  • Irrevocable Trusts: Advanced planning for transfer-tax and asset-protection objectives.
  • Special Needs Trusts: Support vulnerable loved ones while preserving eligibility for means-tested benefits.
  • Pet Trusts: Provide enforceable care instructions and dedicated funding for companion animals.
02

Incapacity Planning & Healthcare Directives

Ensure your personal, financial, and medical affairs can be managed if you cannot speak for yourself.

  • Durable Power of Attorney: Designate a trusted agent for financial and legal matters.
  • Healthcare Surrogate / Medical Authority: Authorize a trusted person to make medical decisions.
  • Living Wills: State preferences for end-of-life medical intervention.
  • HIPAA Authorizations: Permit healthcare providers to share designated medical information.
03

Asset Protection & Wealth Preservation

Proactively structure assets to reduce exposure to future creditors, lawsuits, and business risks.

  • Family Limited Partnerships: Coordinate family asset management and succession objectives.
  • Domestic and International Trust Planning: Evaluate sophisticated structures for liquid and investment wealth.
  • Homestead and Exemption Planning: Coordinate title and ownership with applicable Florida protections.
  • Premarital and Postmarital Agreements: Define financial rights and protect separate property.
04

Business Succession Planning

Prepare the business you built to survive leadership changes, disability, retirement, and death.

  • Buy-Sell Agreements: Establish transfer rules and funding mechanisms for ownership changes.
  • Corporate Restructuring: Align management and ownership for generational transitions.
  • Key-Person and Insurance Strategy: Evaluate liquidity resources for continuity planning.
  • Business Valuation Frameworks: Define valuation methodologies to reduce future shareholder disputes.
05

Elder Law & Long-Term Care Planning

Navigate aging, care decisions, benefits planning, and family responsibilities with dignity and stability.

  • Medicaid Crisis Planning: Evaluate lawful restructuring strategies based on current eligibility rules.
  • Guardianship: Seek court authority when an incapacitated adult requires legal protection.
  • Long-Term Care Advocacy: Review facility agreements and address resident-rights concerns.
  • Elder Exploitation Matters: Pursue remedies for suspected financial abuse or institutional neglect.
06

Probate, Trust & Estate Administration

Guide personal representatives, trustees, and families through administration with organization and clarity.

  • Probate Administration: Address will admission, creditor procedures, estate obligations, and distributions.
  • Trustee Support: Assist with notices, accountings, distributions, and fiduciary compliance.
  • Summary and Simplified Procedures: Evaluate eligibility for expedited administration.
  • Ancillary Probate: Coordinate administration involving real property across state lines.
07

Fiduciary Litigation Dispute Resolution

Strategic representation when trust and estate disputes cannot be resolved informally.

  • Will and Trust Contests: Challenge or defend validity based on legally recognized grounds.
  • Breach of Fiduciary Duty: Address alleged mismanagement by trustees or personal representatives.
  • Beneficiary Rights: Seek required information, accountings, or proper administration.
  • Heirship and Kinship Claims: Establish inheritance rights in complex intestate matters.

Florida-Focused Planning

Local insight for property, family, and cross-border wealth.

South Florida planning often combines homestead rights, condominium ownership, international families, closely held businesses, and assets located across multiple jurisdictions.

01

Florida Homestead & Real Estate Protection

Coordinate ownership, estate planning, creditor concerns, and transfer objectives for a primary Florida residence.

  • Homestead exemption and constitutional planning
  • Enhanced life-estate deed evaluation
  • Condo and co-op succession issues
  • Ancillary administration for out-of-state property
02

International & Cross-Border Estate Planning

Coordinate U.S. property, foreign assets, citizenship, residency, reporting obligations, and family succession.

  • Nonresident ownership of U.S.-situated assets
  • Dual-jurisdiction estate documents
  • Foreign trust and reporting coordination
  • Pre-immigration planning for relocating families
03

Florida Incapacity Planning

Prepare state-specific directives designed to reduce uncertainty during a medical or cognitive crisis.

  • Florida durable powers of attorney
  • Healthcare surrogate designations
  • Living wills and HIPAA authorizations
  • Declarations of preneed guardian
04

Miami-Dade Probate & Trust Administration

Guide fiduciaries through court filings, notices, creditor procedures, accountings, and distributions.

  • Formal administration
  • Summary administration eligibility
  • Trustee compliance and beneficiary notices
  • Creditor-claim review and objections
05

Florida Elder Law & Medicaid Planning

Evaluate care, eligibility, income, asset, and family-support issues under current Florida program rules.

  • Medicaid eligibility and crisis strategy
  • Qualified Income Trust evaluation
  • Assisted-living and nursing-facility agreements
  • Senior and caregiver advocacy

Interactive Planning Tools

Start identifying the questions your plan should address.

These educational tools provide general screening information only. They do not calculate legal fees, determine eligibility, or replace attorney advice.

Educational Estimator

Miami Probate Planning Calculator

Complete the questions to receive a general planning indicator.
Quick Assessment

The Florida Homestead Check

Select each statement that currently applies.

Secure Client Experience

Bilingual Client Portal

English and Spanish support for secure document exchange, video consultations, digital signatures, and matter updates.

English Intake Consulta en Español

Our Process

Clear guidance from first conversation to a plan built for life.

A deliberate four-step process keeps every recommendation aligned with your family, assets, and long-term priorities.

01

Discover

Identify family priorities, assets, concerns, deadlines, and existing documents.

02

Design

Develop a coordinated legal strategy tailored to Florida and applicable federal considerations.

03

Implement

Prepare, review, execute, and organize the documents and ownership changes required by the plan.

04

Maintain

Review the plan after major family, financial, property, business, or legal changes.

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Protect what you built. Prepare the people you love.

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