Ancillary Probate Lawyer Florida
Settling a loved one's Florida property from another state?
Speak Directly With Matt Weidner Today for a free action plan for the Florida side of the estate
- A chance to review the estate with Matt, 25+ years in Florida
- Understand who can serve as personal representative in Florida
- Learn which records to request from the home state court
- See whether the shorter ancillary process may fit the estate
- Find out which Florida county the ancillary case is filed in
- The evaluation is 100% free, with no pressure or obligation
Free reviews are offered at our discretion and are not guaranteed, and a personal review by Matt Weidner, including same-day timing, is subject to case type and availability.
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Why Choose Us?
When a parent or relative who lived in another state or country dies owning a Florida home, condo, or other property in their own name, the probate case back home usually cannot pass that property on by itself. Florida handles it through a separate case, ancillary probate (formally called ancillary administration), and for a family working from somewhere else, the court, the rules, and the paperwork are all new.
Matt Weidner has over 25 years of experience as a Florida lawyer, and he often works with families directly, so you have the chance to talk with him instead of being handed to a junior staff member. He can explain what Florida needs from the home state estate and what has to happen before the property can be sold or transferred, and in what order, before anything is filed.
Request your free evaluation today and get clear next steps for the Florida property.
How It Works
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get your free same-day evaluation and action plan
Submit the form above or give us a call to get started. People find our free evaluations and action plans extremely valuable.
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discuss your options With Matt so you know exactly how to proceed
Matt will go over all of your options with you so that you know exactly what to do. No more confusion!
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Get More Ancillary Probate Help If Needed
If the estate needs more after your evaluation, Weidner Law can open the ancillary case and help carry it through, with Matt’s Florida probate experience behind it.
Free evaluations and action plans are offered at our discretion, depend on case type and availability, and are not guaranteed, including a personal review by Matt Weidner. Submitting a form or contacting the firm does not create an attorney-client relationship or guarantee any outcome.
Meet Matt Weidner and the Weidner Law Team
Matt Weidner is a St. Petersburg attorney who has been licensed in Florida since 1999 and earned his law degree at Florida State University College of Law. Probate is one of the areas he focuses on, and Weidner Law also practices real estate and litigation, which matters when the Florida asset in an ancillary estate is a home, a condo, or a parcel of land.
Associate attorney Jason M. Kral works alongside Matt, with a background in real estate litigation, complex civil litigation, corporate law and estate planning. Together, the Weidner Law team can handle the Florida filings, notices and court steps, so families outside the state are not left to work through an unfamiliar system on their own.
Our Ancillary Probate Services
An ancillary estate involves more than a single filing. Alongside the Florida case itself, Weidner Law helps with the property, the creditor process, and the questions that come up when an estate is split between two states.
- Ancillary probate administration
- Short form ancillary filings
- Inherited Florida real estate matters
- Notice to creditors and claims
- Probate and estate disputes
- Estate planning for Florida property
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Who we Help
Ancillary probate usually falls to someone outside Florida: a child, sibling or named executor settling the estate of a person who lived in another state or country but owned property here.
- Out of state executors and administrators
- Families of Florida snowbirds
- Heirs selling inherited Florida property
- Heirs of someone who lived abroad
- Beneficiaries waiting on Florida assets
- Families of nonresidents without wills
Frequently Asked Questions
Often, yes, if you are a close relative. Florida lets a nonresident serve only within certain family relationships to the decedent, such as a spouse, child, parent, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew, or the spouse of one of them. Without that kind of family tie, a nonresident cannot serve. We can confirm whether you qualify.
Sometimes. Florida has shorter routes for smaller estates, including summary administration and, when there is a will, a short form ancillary filing, each with its own value limits and conditions. We can look at the Florida property and tell you whether either one fits your estate.
Call us or use any Get My Free Case Evaluation button on this page, from wherever you live. Your evaluation is free, and Matt can walk you through how the Florida case fits with the estate back home and what it will involve.
As soon as you learn the estate includes Florida property. Early guidance gives you time to plan around any sale, mortgage or tenant tied to the property, and to line up what Florida will ask for.
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What Weidner Law Brings to a Florida Ancillary Probate Case
Weidner Law represents families in Florida ancillary probate when a loved one lived in another state or country but left property here. Matt Weidner and the Weidner Law team can take the Florida case from the first petition through the court’s final order, including the ancillary letters that give the personal representative the same power to sell, lease or mortgage Florida property that any Florida personal representative has.
Matt Weidner is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Litigation – Real Estate, recognized since the 2027 edition, and Weidner Law’s practice areas include probate as well as real estate and litigation. When an ancillary estate centers on selling or retitling a Florida home or parcel, having probate and property experience in the same firm fits the work, and a disagreement over the property itself can stay with the lawyers who already know the file.
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Florida Ancillary Probate Counsel for Out of State Personal Representatives
An executor or personal representative appointed in another state often learns that the home state appointment is not enough on its own to sell or retitle Florida real estate. Florida’s probate rules generally require a personal representative here to be represented by a lawyer admitted in Florida, and an ancillary petition in a testate estate has to include authenticated copies from the home state case, such as the will, the order admitting it to probate, and the representative’s authority to act.
Weidner Law serves as that Florida counsel. Matt can identify what to request from the home state court, help the right person qualify to serve in Florida, give the required notice to anyone with an equal or greater right to serve, and handle Florida’s notice to creditors. Once expenses and claims are paid, the court may order the remaining Florida property transferred to the home state representative or distributed to the beneficiaries, and we work toward that step from the start.
Handling Ancillary Estates Across Florida From Our St. Petersburg Office
Weidner Law’s office is at 856 2nd Ave N in St. Petersburg, and the firm practices exclusively in the state and federal courts of Florida. When the decedent lived outside Florida, the ancillary case is filed in a county where the decedent’s property is located, which might be Pinellas County, another county on the Gulf Coast, or one on the other side of the state. Matt Weidner is admitted to all Florida state courts, so the firm can take the case in whichever Florida county the property is in.
For families in other states and other countries, that means a Florida law office you can call Monday to Friday from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm and Saturday from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm Eastern time, or reach through any Get My Free Case Evaluation button on this page. Wherever you are, you can start with a free evaluation without making a trip to Florida first.
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