Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
  Bruce is a Florida Bar Board Certified Wills, Trusts, and Estates lawyer. His designated areas of specialties are trusts, wills, and estate planning, probate administration, real estate property law, corporations business law, and asset protection.
• Limited Liability Companies
  We can draw the contracts for sale and issue title insurance required in a sales contract. We also prepare incorporation documents for business organizations such as small business corporations and limited liability companies, including by-laws and operating agreements. Sale and transfer of businesses may also be handled by our office.

Property Law

• Real Estate Transactions
  She presently is President and Partner in McManus and McManus, P.A. in Largo, founded by her grandfather, Fred McManus, in 1953. Mary is the third generation of the McManus & McManus Law Firm. Her practice consists of real estate transactions, estate planning, and elder law services. She is a Member Agent for Old Republic Title Insurance Company.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
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• Wills
  When death occurs, family members need to know who has responsibility to take action, what action(s) to take, how to identify what assets are owned by the decedent, the value of the assets owned at the date of death, and who will own what assets after death. Further, who is responsible to provide information to family members or other named beneficiaries, what is the correct information to provide and who is responsible to hold assets, account for them, file tax returns, and pay outstanding bills. These activities required after a client’s death are referred to as estate settlement, trust settlement and sometimes will and probate settlement. We are heavily involved in these activities and assist clients and their family members in handling the follow through with transfer or re-registration of assets, discuss what claims, expenses, and taxes must be paid, and what the most efficient, legally required, and least expensive process is to accomplish this.
• Trusts
  The legal name or property (real or intangible), this legal name tells who or what entity is the owner of that property. e.g. John and Jane Smith, John and Jane Smith Revocable Living Trust, etc.
• Power of Attorney
  ... 8, 17, and 22 and have now reached 50 years of age. By this time, this couple has been working since they were married at 22, each have IRA accounts. They own a home valued at 485,028 but still have an $18,000 Mortgage. They have jointly owned CD’s totaling a value of $650,000. By the time one or both individuals are 50 years old, this couple has had a lawyer who prepared wills for them, a power of attorney and a living will last updated twelve years ago.
• Probate
  She is a member of the Elder Law, Real Property, Probate Law, and Tax Law sections of the Florida Bar association. Danielle is active in the community with both business and civic organizations. She is a board member of the Central Park Performing Arts Foundation, and is a member of the Bluffs Business Association, and Central Pinellas Chamber of Commerce.

Finance Law

• Tax Law
  Danielle is a member of the Elder Law, Real Property, Probate Law, and Tax Law sections of the Florida Bar association.