On August 18, 2015, the City of Fort Lauderdale’s Commission adopted an ordinance regulating vacation rentals. Prior to developing and adopting the ordinance the City lost its effort to prohibit single-family homes from...

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As discussed last month, Husband and Wife created a Charitable Remainder Trust (“CRT”), contributed their corporate stock valued at $5,000,000 to the CRT and the Trustee later sold the stock.  No capital gains...

In the recent decision of Strazzulla v. Riverside Banking Co., Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal (“DCA”) has adopted a two-prong test for determining when shareholders may bring direct actions in their...

A commercial tenant files bankruptcy and stops paying rent. What should a landlord do? One option is to immediately file a motion for payment of administrative rent. Unless a tenant is a large, newsworthy national chain, a...