Family Law

• Guardianship
  You may notice a friend or a family member who is losing the ability to manage financial, medical or legal, affairs.  That person may need a guardian appointed to help manage his or her affairs.  This is done through a guardianship proceeding.

Criminal Law

• DUI/DWI

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Barbara Buxton is a South Florida Attorney and has a Master of Laws in Estate Planning degree (LL.M.). Our law firm focuses on Miami, Dade and Broward County, Fort Lauderdale and Aventura Probate, Estates, Estate Planning, Wills and Trusts, Asset Preservation Planning, Gift and Estate TaxPlanning, Nursing Home and Assisted Living Medicaid Planning & Eligibility, Elder Law, and Business and Corporate Law. Whether you need an estate planning, wills and trusts attorney, elder law attorney and Florida nursing home Medicaid lawyer or Florida probate attorney in Aventura, Miami, Miami Shores, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Hallandale, Pompano Beach, Pembroke Pines, Plantation, Weston, Coconut Creek, Tamarac, Deerfield Beach, Broward County or Palm Beach County, Florida, our law firm is here to assist you.
• Business Disputes

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  With over 20 years of legal experience, Barbara Buxton is equipped to handle civil mediation and other alternative dispute resolution arising from: Wills and trusts disputes; Guardianship disputes; Asset protection disputes; Probate disputes; Creditor claims; Residential and commercial real estate disputes; Business contract disputes; Other civil mediation.
• Real Estate Transactions
  Ms. Buxton also represents physicians, businesses and individuals in planning and transactional matters with an emphasis on high quality, personalized, and timely legal services at a reasonable cost. These services include formulating organizational structures to maximize tax benefits and minimize creditor’s risk, contract preparation and review, using wealth preservation strategies, planning for the passing of a family business from one generation to the next, and real estate transactions.

Health Law

• Medicaid Planning
  Let Our Experienced Asset Preservation and Florida Medicaid Planning Lawyer Help You Legally Protect Your Assets From a Long Nursing Home Stay and Long-term Care Costs.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  It’s Never Too Late To Plan Ahead: Let Our South Florida Estate Planning Attorney Help Create Your Living Will
• Wills
  The term “living will” is commonly used to refer to a document that expresses a person’s desires and preferences about medical treatment in case he or she becomes unable to communicate these instructions during terminal illness or permanent unconsciousness. While the term remains in use, it has fallen out of favor in recent years, since living wills are not really wills at all. They are not concerned with matters beyond specifying certain wishes regarding medical treatment. A living will may also be known as a healthcare directive, directive to physicians, instruction directive or a declaration concerning life-sustaining measures.
• Trusts
  The following are helpful links to some Florida Probate Court Websites to provide you with information about probate court. Please contact our office if you need an experienced Florida Probate Attorney to represent you in Florida probate administration, Florida Trust Administration or in an Inheritance matter.
• Power of Attorney
  A power of attorney is a document granting an attorney-in-fact — who may be any competent adult, not necessarily a lawyer — the power to make certain decisions on behalf of the person giving that power (the principal). The attorney-in-fact acts as the principal’s agent, and the document authorizes his or her actions over whatever activities the principal specifies. Most commonly, a power of attorney grants authority to manage the principal’s financial dealings. The principal may remove the power by revoking it or by setting a time limit. Otherwise, the power ends when the principal dies or, in some cases, when the principal becomes incapacitated.
• Probate
  The Law Offices of Barbara Buxton, P.A., is a South Florida Wills, Trusts, Estates, Estate Planning, Asset Preservation Planning, Elder Law and Probate Law Firm. We primarily assist clients in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, however, we also represent clients throughout the country who have family or property in South Florida. We look forward to serving your legal needs.

Finance Law

• Tax Law
  The terms of a testamentary trust are contained in the will of a decedent. Therefore, the transfer of property to the trust is made either during or at the end of the administration of the decedent’s estate, instead of by a direct transfer during life. While testamentary trusts are often used in conjunction with tax planning, they are most frequently used to control the disposition of property beyond the normal time for probate administration.