Biography
Miranda Weiss is a member of the firm's Estate, Trust & Wealth Preservation Practice Group. She focuses her practice on estate planning; estate and trust administration; and estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax planning. Her experience includes:
- Drafting wills, revocable trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, charitable remainder trusts, and irrevocable inter vivos trusts
- Advising and assisting clients with probate avoidance, creditor protection, gifting, and tax efficient distribution of assets
- Researching and analyzing complex tax and estate planning issues, such as generation-skipping transfer tax issues, special needs trust planning, and charitable gifting
- Administration of estates and trusts
- Consultation regarding the transfer of closely held entity interests
- Preparation of and review of federal estate (and generation-skipping transfer) tax returns, gift tax returns, and income tax returns for estate and trusts
- Preparation of prenuptial agreements
Legal Services
Education and Honors
- University of Florida (LL.M., 2017)
- Master of Laws in Taxation
- Research Assistant for Professor Dennis A. Calfee
- University of Florida Levin College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2016)
- Florida Law Review (Executive Notes & Comments Editor, Research Editor, Accomplished Research Award Recipient, and Book Award Recipient)
- Book Award Recipient in Estates & Trusts
- Legal Writing and Appellate Advocacy Teaching Assistant
- University of Florida (B.S., summa cum laude, 2013)
- Major: Public Relations
Bar Admissions
- Florida
Professional and Civic Activities
- The Florida Bar (Member of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section; Member of Tax Section)
- Collier County Women’s Bar Association (Member)