When a family starts researching how to help an aging parent or a loved one with a disability manage their finances, one term comes up almost immediately: durable power of attorney. It is one of the most common planning tools…

When families, attorneys, judges, case managers, social workers, and trust officers evaluate a professional guardian in Florida, the conversation usually centers on the individual: their experience, their credentials, their reputation. Just as important, and often overlooked, is the organization behind…

Somewhere in the middle of researching guardianship for a parent or spouse, many Florida families run into a confusing detail: some guardianship providers are nonprofit organizations, and some aren’t, and nobody explains what that actually means or why it should…

You’ve noticed it for months. Your mom keeps paying the same bill twice, or forgetting to pay it at all. Your dad got confused at the pharmacy and walked out without his prescription. Maybe there was a scary phone call…

You have been told that your mother needs a guardian. Maybe her memory has become unreliable, or she has fallen for a scam that drained part of her savings, or her doctors say she can no longer safely manage her…

You and your siblings are sitting around your mom’s kitchen table, and nobody wants to say it out loud: she can’t manage her medications or her bills anymore, and something has to change. Someone needs to become her guardian. But…

Your father fell in his kitchen on a Tuesday morning. By the time you reach the hospital, the doctors are telling you he has a serious head injury and cannot safely make decisions about his own care. He lives alone.…

Your father has always paid his own bills, driven his own car, and made his own decisions. Then, a few months after his stroke, you notice the stack of unopened mail on his kitchen counter. A “final notice” from the…

You’ve noticed your mother is forgetting to pay bills, missing doctor’s appointments, and mixing up her medications. Your brother thinks the family needs to “get guardianship” right away, before something worse happens. But when you start researching what that actually…