About
Matthew is a native of Florida and Brevard County and became raised domestically in Merritt Island. Matthew has an in depth and various schooling which incorporates a bachelor’s degree in accounting, a master’s degree in taxation, and a law degree. Prior to practising law Matthew received his Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license and worked in public and personal accounting for numerous years before entering regulation school. Matthew’s particular background in law, accounting, and taxation provide a completely unique perspective this is unequalled by means of maximum lawyers.
Matthew has been positioned in the identical office in Cocoa for the past 15 years working towards commercial enterprise law, wills, trusts, probate, actual property, and asset safety for the local residents of Brevard County and surrounding areas.
As a commercial enterprise legal professional Matthew’s commercial enterprise regulation experience includes structuring and negotiating business contracts, mergers, asset and commercial enterprise acquisitions, entity choice and formation for new and start-up businesses, shareholder agreements, employment agreements, non-compete agreements, license agreements, fairness and capital transactions, inventory alternatives, loans, debt units, franchise acquisitions, capital and system rentals, stock warrants, stock redemptions, stock subscriptions, shareholder buyouts, partnership divisions, enterprise “divorces”, shareholder and partner disputes and backbone, partnership agreements, restrained liability enterprise regulations and operating agreements, non-registered nonpublic non-public protection offerings, line of credit agreements, inventory pledge agreements, UCC-1 secured transactions, liens, Federal and State income tax analysis and advice, analysis and recommendation on State and neighborhood tax troubles. Matthew additionally serves as widespread corporate counsel for a mess of neighborhood companies who want felony advice concerning complex transactions or who simply want to call Matthew once in a while to reply their prison questions.
As an property planning attorney Matthew represents many neighborhood families as their trusted own family lawyer. Matthew’s estate planning experience consists of advising customers and getting ready revocable living trusts, wills, powers of lawyer, dwelling wills, fitness care surrogates, boost directives, fitness care powers of legal professional, five wishes, irrevocable trusts, unique desires trusts, charitable remainder trusts, foundations, irrevocable life coverage trusts, prenuptial agreements and post marital agreements. Matthew attracts upon his heritage in accounting and taxation to symbolize rich clients in complicated property making plans order to lessen or put off Federal Estate Taxes. Matthew is usually available to the families he represents to be their first point of touch for any kind of own family legal emergency or trouble. Matthew is likewise frequent speaker in nearby seminars on diverse subjects in estate making plans and asset protection.
As a real property attorney Matthew represents business and people in residential and commercial real estate purchases & income, industrial and residential rentals, settlement drafting and negotiations, landlord-tenant disputes, evictions, deeds, mortgages, foreclosure, loan adjustments, deed in lieu of foreclosure, brief income, contracts for deeds, lease with buy option, long term land rentals, homeowners’ associations, declarations of covenants and restrictions, easements, rights of manner, liens, taxation, boundary disputes, actual estate improvement, platting, subdivision, industrial and home condo declarations and documentation, Section 1031 Tax Free exchanges, actual property retaining companies, actual estate partnerships, lady fowl deeds, joint ownership deeds, and planning for the transfer of real property to heirs at death.
Finally, as an asset safety legal professional Matthew has vast enjoy developing and enforcing techniques which fully make use of the protections provided via the laws of Florida, such strategies have included confined partnerships, irrevocable trusts, series limited legal responsibility agencies, constitutional home provisions, sure kinds of retirement bills and investment contracts, and joint asset possession.
›
›
Location
Legal Issues
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Probate
- Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- Landlord Tenant
- Evictions, Housing Discrimination, Landlord Rights, Rent Control, Tenants Rights
Costs
Certificates
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
