Colette K. Meyer

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Colette K. Meyer: Attorney with Meyer Law Firm
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Perhaps more than any other legal area, estate planning involves intensely personal issues. Attorney Colette Meyer focuses on guiding you through the complicated and often emotional maze of balancing family protection, wealth preservation and cherished family values in the estate planning process. Colette designed her practice in 1998 with a dedication to providing life-long legal representation complemented by personal attention. As life's events happen or laws change, Colette will assist you in refining your goals and wishes and adjusting your estate plan as needed. Colette brings over 20 years of experience to her law practice and built her legal foundation at renowned New York-based firms. Colette was counsel in the Palm Beach office of the international firm Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine. And prior, she was an attorney at the firms of Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander and Ferdon and Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle. Colette currently is a member of both the Florida State Bar and State Bar of Wisconsin. She was granted membership in the AARP Legal Services Network and has also held memberships in the Jupiter-Tequesta-Hobe Sound Association of Realtors and the National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys and The Family Wealth Planning Institute®, national organizations of attorneys who specialize in estate planning. In addition, Colette has participated in the adjunct professor program at the University of Miami-School of Law.

Ms. Meyer earned her law degree from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and, while attending law school, was employed by the Wisconsin Attorney General. Prior to law school, Colette completed a Biology degree at Carleton College in Minnesota.

Colette has a strong commitment to the community in which she lives and works and actively supports the arts in her role as past President of the Lighthouse ArtCenter in Tequesta. Colette's personal interests include downhill skiing and whitewater rafting and, through her immigrant parents, Colette has U.S. and Swiss dual citizenship which sparked her love for travel.

Areas of Practice (84)

  • Estate Planning
  • Probate and Trust Litigation
  • Guardianships
  • Real Estate
  • Florida Residency Planning
  • Wills
  • Contested Wills
  • Inheritance
  • Living Wills
  • Missing Heir Searches
  • Successions
  • Trusts and Estates
  • Contested Trusts and Estates
  • Decedents Estates
  • Estate Administration
  • Estate Litigation
  • Estate Bankruptcy
  • Estate Planning for Parents of Handicapped Children
  • Estate Planning for the Disabled
  • Estate Planning for Unmarried Couples
  • Estate Settlements
  • Family Trusts
  • Family Wealth Transfer
  • Fiduciary Law
  • Fiduciary Liability
  • Living Trusts
  • Personal Planning
  • Pet Trusts
  • Powers of Attorney
  • Retirement Planning
  • Special Needs Trusts
  • Surrogates Court Practice
  • Trust Administration
  • Trust Law
  • Wealth Preservation
  • Wealth Planning
  • Trust Planning
  • Trust Litigation
  • Trust and Estate Collections
  • Elder Law
  • Elder Abuse
  • Elder Care
  • Elder Rights
  • Premarital Agreements
  • Post Nuptial Agreements
  • Guardianship and Conservatorship
  • Adult Guardianship
  • Advance Directives
  • Conservatorship
  • Dependent Adult Abuse
  • Elder Guardianship
  • Guardian Ad Litem
  • Guardianship
  • Guardianship Administration
  • Incompetency Proceedings
  • Mental Disability Law
  • Probate
  • Ancillary Probate
  • International Probate
  • Probate Administration
  • Probate Litigation
  • Probate Taxation
  • Adverse Possession
  • Boundary Disputes
  • Easements
  • Land Acquisitions
  • Real Estate Acquisitions
  • Land Sales
  • Residential Real Estate
  • Residential Real Estate Acquisitions
  • Residential Real Estate Development
  • Right of Way Easements
  • Quiet Title
  • Residential Real Estate Sales
  • Real Estate Title
  • Real Estate Tax Appeals
  • Estate Planning for the Elderly
  • International Estate Planning
  • International Trusts and Estates
  • International Trusts
  • Financial Planning
  • Fiduciary Litigation
  • Unclaimed Property
  • Offshore Trusts

Education & Credentials

University Attended:
Carleton College, B.S., Biology, 1981
Law School Attended:
University of Wisconsin-Madison, J.D., 1985
Year of First Admission:
1985
Admission:
Supreme Court of the State of Florida; Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida; U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin; 1985, Wisconsin; 1986, Florida
Memberships:
The Florida Bar; State Bar of Wisconsin; Palm Beach County Bar Association; AARP Legal Services Network.
Languages:
German
ISLN:
904832547
Hobbies & interests:
Downhill Skiing, travel and whitewater Rafting.

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561-786-1315  Phone

561-748-7730  Fax

www.MeyerLawFirmFL.com

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