Tampa Estate Planning That Starts With Who You Love
One day the people you love will read this plan without you in the room. It should sound like you when they do. Most firms start by asking what you own. We start by asking what matters most to you, because a plan built from a list of accounts protects your property, and a plan built around your people protects your family.
Flat-fee estate planning, business succession, and trust administration for Florida and Missouri families and business owners.
- 18 + Years in Practice
- 2 States Licensed: Florida & Missouri
- 100 % Flat-Fee Plans
- Law + Title One Coordinated Firm
Most Florida Estate Plans Don't Fail on Paper. They Fail at the Kitchen Table.
The documents are usually fine. What breaks is the family. A brother who assumed. A daughter who finds out at the reading. A second marriage nobody prepared anyone for. Trust and probate litigation keep climbing, and very little of it is about bad drafting. It is about people who were never brought into the same room.
So we do that part first. Before a single instrument gets drafted, we get the people your plan affects pointed in the same direction. It takes more of everyone’s time. It is also the difference between a plan that exists and a plan that holds.
A plan your family understands is the kind that holds.
Before you decide anything, it helps to know what you actually want to happen. The Family Continuity Workbook walks you through the same questions we start with in the room: who steps in, what they would need to know, and what you would want said. It is yours whether or not we ever work together.
Estate Planning Services in Tampa, Brandon and Riverview
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Tailored Estate Planning
Trusts, wills, and the powers of attorney that speak for you when you cannot speak for yourself. Built around your family, not pulled off a shelf.
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Business Succession
The same protection, pointed at your company. Who signs, who has access, and who keeps it running if you cannot.
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Trust Administration
When a plan has to be carried out, we carry the paperwork so your family can carry each other.
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Sartor Village Plan℠
The people who step forward for your children, and what Florida law actually lets them do.
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Business Succession Planning for Florida Business Owners
My husband and I run businesses and raise our son at the same time, so I know what that calendar looks like. I also know the question most couples in business together have never asked out loud: if we were both in the same car, who signs? Not eventually. Thursday.
When one household holds the owner, the operator, the payroll approver, and the parent, your estate plan and your business plan cannot be strangers to each other. One event reaches both. We build them as a single plan so your family is not negotiating with your bank, your partner, and a judge in the same month.
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Who can sign, and decide, while you are unavailable
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Who has legal access to accounts, payroll, vendor contracts, and passwords
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What happens to your half if one of you is gone and the other keeps operating
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How the business gets valued, sold, or handed down, decided by you instead of argued over later
All of this is just as true if only one of you runs the business, or if the business is a rental duplex and a side practice, or if you are the one keeping the household running while your spouse builds. The question does not change. Who speaks for it when you cannot?
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How Our Florida Estate Planning Process Works
Most firms hand you an assets form first. We do not, because a list of accounts cannot tell us what you are actually trying to protect.
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The Clarity Session℠
A structured conversation about who you love, what you have built, and what you want it to do for the people you love. No documents on the table. This is where your plan actually gets designed.
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Design and Flat Fee
You choose a flat fee plan before any work begins. You choose the depth that fits your family and your budget.
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Sign, Fund, and Stay Current
A trust only protects what is actually inside it. Every plan includes the deed for your home and written funding instructions built around your real accounts. You leave with your three-year review already scheduled.
Guardianship Planning for Minor Children: The Sartor Village Plan℠
If you were unreachable tonight, no document you can sign hands your babysitter, your school, or your sister legal authority over your children. Florida does not allow it. What a plan can do is settle who steps forward, give her real medical authority from the first hour, and get her in front of a judge in days.
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The Village℠ - the people who step forward, and medical authority that works from the first hour
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The Guardians - your choice, filed with the clerk, where a judge sees it and can weigh it
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The Values - how you want them raised, in your own words. Sunday mornings, Japanese lessons, the traditions you would want kept. Not just the pediatrician's number.
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The Hard Conversation - who should never be asked, handled as an instrument rather than as a wish
A judge gets a file. Your child gets a village.
Build Your Village℠
About Irina Sprouse, Tampa Estate Planning Attorney
That’s the whole idea. A good plan fits the way good tailoring fits: measured for one person, adjusted as they change, and obvious the moment you see it on them. Off the rack is faster. It just never quite sits right.
The firm is led by attorney Irina Sprouse, who came to estate planning by way of cross-border publishing rights in post-Soviet Russia and compliance work for international companies and banks. Different rooms, same job. Work out what actually needs protecting, then make the paperwork say so.
What Tampa Bay Families Say About Working With Us
Florida Estate Planning FAQ
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Planning is the act of choosing for yourself: who steps in, who inherits, who raises your children, and who speaks for your business. If you do not write a plan, Florida already has one for you. It is a fixed formula, it does not know your family, and it applies whether you would have liked the result or not.
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You choose a flat fee plan before any work begins. You choose the depth that fits your family and your budget.
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No. What our clients have in common is not a net worth. It is that they would rather decide these things on purpose than leave them to a judge.
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Yes, and it is a good part of who we work with. Two owners under one roof means a single event can reach both the household and the company at once. We plan for that as one problem instead of two. Business-related work is invoiced separately from your personal planning, so your books stay clean.
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Signing day is a milestone, not a finish line. A trust that holds nothing protects nothing, so we prepare and record the deed for your primary residence and give you funding instructions written around your actual accounts, including what to ask for at each institution. You handle the visits. We handle the direction. If you have more money than time, you can add firm-managed asset alignment. Your three-year review is scheduled before you leave.
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Florida and Missouri.
Talk With a Tampa Estate Planning Attorney
You do not need documents ready, a list of accounts, or a decision already made. Fifteen minutes on the phone tells us both whether we are the right firm for what you are carrying. If we are, we will tell you exactly what happens next.