ESTATE PLANNING COUNCIL OF THE FUN COAST

Same-sex partners, and indeed all unmarried couples, with or without children, face particular challenges in their life and estate planning, and very little in Florida law accommodates them. If we are engaged as their advisers, how can we be sensitive to the challenges they face, and what can we do to encourage careful planning?

Our speaker, Vernon Swartsel, Esq., compiled the estate planning section of this publication and will share his insights with us.

"The Legal Handbook for LGBT Floridians and Their Families"

"This handbook is available online for free in the link from the sponsoring organization "Equality Florida". The handbook information begins on page two of the link. The Estate Planning Council of the Fun Coast has taken no position of support for Equality Florida, other than to make this handbook, and our program discussing it, available to help our members better serve our clients." 

BIO: Vernon Swartsel is an attorney with Carlton Fields, resident in their Orlando office, who practices in the areas of wealth preservation, including estate and trust planning. He is on the board of the Florida United Methodist Foundation and served as its chair in 2009- 201 1. In earlier years he served on the boards of the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation, a private foundation headquartered in Winter Park, and of the Florida United Methodist Children's Home in Enterprise. He served for three years as the president of the Kiwanis Club of Orlando Foundation and presently serves on the Investment Committee of the Community Foundation of Central Florida. He grew up in Mount Dora, received his undergraduate degree at the University of Florida and his law degree from the University of Virginia. He is a former Peace Corps Volunteer in India and also served as a legal officer in the U.S. Army.

RSVP: Contact: Elaine Wait

Phone: 386-679-2148

Email: ehenry@arcadiahealthcare.com