Englewood, FL
Probate Lawyer at Englewood, FL
Practice Areas: Probate, Trusts ... +2 more
OUTCOME: 2d DCA reversed trial court's order denying the petitions to decrease the fees charged by the PR/Trustee and PR's attorneys and remanded case to trial court for further proceedings.
Probate/Trust beneficiary successfully challenged reasonableness of fees taken by court-appointed PR/Trustee after trial court denied petitions to decrease fees without holding a hearing thereon.
OUTCOME: Successful Community Redevelopment Agency [CRA] for Town [unincorporated] of Englewood, FL
This IRS Sec. 501(c)(4) entity began in 1985 as Dearborn Merchants Association but restructured in 1986 to Downtown Merchants Association to confront FL DOT's 17 ft deep excavation & revision of our 1 ... mile long business district on Dearborn Street. Then in 1994 its current name of Olde Englewood Village Association [OEVA] emerged to encourage & support Sarasota County's 1990's focus of design and rehabilitation of this South Sarasota County town, with beginnings in 1896. With the County's infrastructure in place and with TIFF financing, Englewood's CRA began to blossom and then flourish with paved streets, surface drainage, street lights and numerous other town-center improvements.
OUTCOME: FL Supreme Court remanded case to trial court to permit joinder by individual property owners to continue these restrictive deed-enforcement proceedings.
Suit & appeal asserted Home-Owners Ass'n had standing to enforce restrictive deed covenants on behalf of its members. The Florida Supreme Court then declined to expand the 'doctrine of associational s ... tanding' under the facts of that case.
OUTCOME: Successful de novo National Bank enterprise
Served as organizing agent and CEO for de novo National Bank in SW Florida town on Gulf of Mexico commencing in 1970. Bank opened in new office building in 1973 with over 700 shareholders & sold into ... a regional bank holding company in 1983 with over $40,000 in assets.
OUTCOME: Ongoing annual youth-oriented community support
Structured FL non-profit, tax-exempt foundation in early 1968 to capably serve Englewood-community young people, including a 9.58 acre Rotary Club camp ground nestled along the winding Myakka River in ... South Sarasota County. Englewood Youth Foundation (EYF) serves as the philanthropic arm of the Rotary Club of Englewood, FL, in which it serves to foster and improve literacy, educational opportunities, community awareness, and valuable life skills for the youth of our community, so they may gain experience, life values and confidence to achieve their potential. During 2015 over $13,000 in college scholarships were provided to graduating high school students; close to $10,000 was given in support for food, shelter, clothing and school supplies for needy children and families; and about $3,500 for literacy and community leadership skills through various reading, educational and leadership camps. This foundation continues to actively serve these community needs to this day.
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