Estate Planning
Asset Protection Planning in Florida
First-generation wealth is hard-won. A medical judgment, a business dispute, or a personal liability claim can threaten everything a family has spent decades building. Florida offers some of the strongest asset-protection tools in the country, including a powerful homestead exemption, LLC ownership structures, and certain trust arrangements, but they work only when they are in place before a problem arises. Attorney Burgos has more than 20 years of experience helping Hispanic business owners and property-owning families across Florida use these tools thoughtfully, within the law, and as part of a complete estate plan.
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Asset protection planning uses Florida's legal exemptions and lawful ownership structures to reduce the risk that a future creditor or lawsuit could reach your home, savings, rental property, or business. Attorney Rosenny Burgos helps business owners and property-owning families across Florida build a coordinated plan, entirely by video or phone consultation.
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Florida law protects your primary home from most creditors through the homestead exemption, with no dollar cap. LLCs can separate personal liability from business risk. Certain trusts add another layer. Used together and funded correctly, these tools can substantially reduce what a creditor could reach, but planning must begin before a claim arises.
Florida's Protective Framework
Strong Exemptions, the Right Structures, Working Together
Florida's homestead exemption is one of the most powerful in the nation. A primary residence is protected from forced sale by most creditors, regardless of value. That protection is not automatic for every property you own: it applies only to your principal residence, and there are specific requirements for how title must be held.
For business owners and landlords, Florida LLCs offer a key structural benefit. Liability generated inside a properly maintained LLC generally stays inside it, protecting your personal assets from a business claim. Equally important, properly structured ownership can limit a creditor's ability to reach your LLC interest from the outside in. Attorney Burgos reviews how your businesses and properties are currently titled and identifies gaps that may leave you exposed.
Certain irrevocable trust arrangements can provide an additional layer of protection for assets beyond the homestead and LLC frameworks, particularly for larger estates or concentrated business interests. These tools are more complex and must be established well in advance of any threatened claim to be effective. We explain when they are worth considering and when simpler planning is sufficient.
- Florida homestead exemption: primary residence protected from most creditors, no dollar cap.
- LLC ownership to separate personal liability from business and rental property risk.
- Trust structures for layered protection of larger or concentrated wealth.
- Coordination across your entire estate plan so no gap is left unaddressed.
The Audience We Serve
Built for Business Owners, Landlords, and Families Building Wealth
Asset protection planning matters most when you have something to protect. The clients who benefit most from this work are small-business owners who are personally liable on commercial leases or loans, landlords with one or more rental properties, professionals whose work carries liability risk, and families who have accumulated real estate, savings, or business equity and want to keep it in the family across generations.
For many Hispanic families in Florida, this is first-generation wealth. There was no inherited estate plan, no family attorney on retainer. The goal of protection planning for this audience is not to hide money or avoid legitimate obligations. It is to use every lawful tool Florida offers to make sure that what you built can be passed on.
Our practice is fully virtual. You meet by secure video or phone from anywhere in Florida. We review your current ownership structures, identify risks, and build a coordinated plan that connects your asset-protection strategy to your will, trust, and business documents. Clients in Miami, Orlando, Hialeah, Tampa, and across the state work with us this way.
- Small-business owners with personal liability exposure.
- Landlords with single or multiple rental properties.
- Families building first-generation wealth who want to protect and pass it on.
- Professionals whose work creates liability risk.
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First-generation wealth is hard-won. A medical judgment, a business dispute, or a personal liability claim can threaten everything a family has spent decades building. Florida offers some of the strongest asset-protection tools in the country, including a powerful homestead exemption, LLC ownership structures, and certain trust arrangements, but they work only when they are in place before a problem arises. Attorney Burgos has more than 20 years of experience helping Hispanic business owners and property-owning families across Florida use these tools thoughtfully, within the law, and as part of a complete estate plan. Se Habla Espanol.