Practice Area

Deeds & Real Estate Transfers

Florida deeds done right — Lady Bird deeds, life-estate deeds, quit-claim transfers, and deed corrections, with the title and tax consequences thought through up front.

Why It Matters

Deeds look like simple one-page documents and they almost never are. A poorly drafted deed can wipe out the homestead exemption, trigger documentary stamp tax, expose the property to a child's creditors, or freeze the title in a way that takes a probate to undo.

Florida offers a powerful planning tool — the enhanced life estate deed, often called a Lady Bird deed — that lets you keep total control of your home during life, sell it whenever you want, and pass it outside probate at death. Done right, it avoids probate without losing the homestead protections you need today.

We handle deed work as a discrete legal service so clients who only need a deed don't have to engage a full estate plan, but we always look at the deed in the context of the rest of your situation before we draft it.

You may need this if you:

You want to add a child or other person to your homestead deed
You inherited property and need to retitle it in your name
You bought property in someone else's name and need to fix the title
You want to use a Lady Bird deed to avoid probate on your homestead
You are funding a revocable trust and need to deed real estate into it
A prior deed has a typo, a wrong legal description, or a missing name

Start Your Deed Intake

Our Services

What We Handle

Lady Bird (Enhanced Life Estate) Deed

Avoids probate on the homestead while keeping every right you have today — sell, mortgage, change beneficiaries, even revoke the deed. Florida-specific and not available in most other states.

Life Estate Deed

An older alternative to the Lady Bird that gives a remainder interest now. Useful in some Medicaid scenarios but loses many of the controls a Lady Bird preserves.

Quit-Claim & Warranty Deeds

Standard transfers between family members or into and out of a trust. We pick the right deed type and confirm the transfer triggers no unintended doc stamps or homestead loss.

Trust Funding Deed

Deeding real estate into your revocable living trust is what makes the trust work. We prepare the deed and the homestead-rider language so the homestead exemption survives the transfer.

Deed Correction & Re-Recording

Typos in the legal description, a missing spouse's name, an old deed never recorded — we fix them before they become a probate problem.

Title Issue Triage

Sometimes a deed alone is not enough. When there is an old mortgage, a missing heir, or a tax lien, we coordinate with title counsel to resolve the chain of title.

Most deed work takes one consultation, a draft review, and a recording — not a full estate-plan engagement.

Prefer to talk it through first?

Give us a call — we’re happy to answer questions before you start your intake.

(239) 345-4545