Most Florida retirees know the importance of will planning for their future. However, there is one set of Florida residents who have an even more pressing need for a well-planned estate, and that is the parents of special needs children. That said, it is important for special needs parents to remember that their special needs planning is a complicated and ever-changing area of the law.
At the Law Office of Mitchell Kitroser, we are committed to helping parents avoid the many pitfalls that can occur in an estate plan intended to care for a special needs child, especially during the years after the parents have died. Whenever we create such a plan, organization is key, and we find it best to break up the process into five elemental stages that the child will go through.
First, your estate plan will cover the years from birth to preschool. Second, your estate plan will cover your child’s school years. Third, the plan must cover young adulthood, and fourth, the years of adulthood. Most importantly, the plan needs to consider what will happen after you have died, and the years that follow.
At the Law Office of Mitchell Kitroser, we know that every family is unique and so is every special needs child. Therefore, the estate plans and wills that we create on behalf of special needs parents are catered particularly to their situations. This is also why the final stage of every estate planning process we complete involves a detailed review of the estate plan with the parents to be sure that there are no mistakes and that all the desired goals of the family are met.
Will planning and estate planning is best completed now rather than later and this is especially true for Florida parents who have special needs children. Simply put, we do not know when our last day will be and special needs parents will clearly wish for their child to be taken care of in the best way possible following their deaths. Contact the Law Office of Mitchell Kitroser now for a free initial consultation and to get your estate planning underway today.
