WFP Law, PA

Focus and practice areas

Estate planning, asset protection, elder law and probate administration make up the core of this Fort Lauderdale firm's work. WFP Law, PA presents all four on its site, and the practice works under Florida law. The named services read as the work of a firm centered on wealth, family assets and what happens to them over time.

The four areas share a common thread. Estate planning, asset protection, elder law and probate all deal with the same question from different angles: how a person's property is held, protected and passed on. Keeping them under one roof lets a client handle related needs in one place.

Elder law overlaps with estate planning, with its focus on present needs. It can involve arranging who makes decisions for someone whose health is failing, and putting the right documents in place before a crisis. Handling this early tends to spare families harder choices later, when a court might otherwise have to appoint a guardian.

How the planning documents fit together

Within estate planning, the firm prepares wills, revocable trusts and irrevocable trusts. It also drafts durable powers of attorney, health care surrogate designations and living wills. In my opinion, that set covers the documents most Florida families ask about when they first sit down to make a plan.

A will directs where property goes after death, and in Florida that property passes through probate before it reaches the people named in the will. A revocable trust can hold assets during life and pass them on without that court step. The choice between the two depends on what a person owns and how much of it.

The gap between a revocable and an irrevocable trust matters here. A revocable trust can be changed or undone while the person who made it is alive, which keeps control in their hands. An irrevocable trust gives up much of that control, and in return it can move assets further from a future creditor. Asset protection planning often relies on that second form.

Lifetime and end-of-life documents

Durable powers of attorney and health care surrogate designations apply during life. They name someone to act on money and medical questions if the signer no longer can. A living will records a person's wishes near the end of life, so family and doctors have a written guide to follow.

The firm also plans for cryptocurrency and other digital assets. Many older wills say nothing about digital holdings, so naming who can reach a wallet or an online account is the kind of gap this work closes. This is a newer part of estate practice, and it grows as more value moves online.

Probate and asset protection

The firm handles probate administration, trust administration and matters under Florida probate law. Probate administration is the court process that settles an estate, pays valid debts and transfers what remains to the heirs. Trust administration covers the steps a trustee takes after the person who set up a trust dies, such as accounting for assets and following the trust's terms.

Florida law offers more than one path through probate. Formal administration is the full court process for larger estates. Summary administration is a shorter route for smaller estates, or ones where enough time has passed since the death. Which path fits depends on the value of the estate and the facts around it.

For asset protection, WFP Law uses trusts, limited liability companies, partnerships and other ownership structures. The aim of this work is to hold assets in forms that are harder for a future creditor to reach. As a reviewer, I read this as standard planning for a Florida estate firm, and the firm lists several structures it can put to use.

Business and related services

WFP Law also offers small business planning, corporate formation, business succession planning and planning for business assets. Corporate formation covers setting up the legal shell of a company, such as an LLC or a corporation. Business succession planning maps out who takes over an owner's stake, and how, when that owner retires or dies.

Business assets add another layer to an estate. A share in a company does not always split cleanly among heirs, and a buy-sell agreement or a succession plan can set the terms in advance. Planning for business assets, which the firm names, connects its estate work with its corporate work.

The home page says the firm's work may draw on real estate law and family law. Estate and probate matters often touch a house or a marriage, so keeping those two areas within reach has a clear practical use. The site lists them alongside the estate work as related support.

The attorneys named on the site

The site names four attorneys. Michael D. Wild is the managing partner, and Michael N. Segall is a partner. Raquel Zeitlin and Solimar Rodriguez-Saez appear on the same attorneys page.

Backgrounds and training

Michael D. Wild earned a bachelor's degree in political science, with a minor in sports management, from the University of Florida. He took his law degree at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Before practicing law, he worked as a financial associate at Alliance Bernstein and as an operations assistant with the Miami Dolphins.

Michael N. Segall earned a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law in 2013. He then completed an LL.M. in taxation at the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2014. That tax training lines up closely with the trust and estate planning the firm describes.

Solimar Rodriguez-Saez earned a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, School of Law, in 2010. Rodriguez-Saez speaks English and Spanish. In my opinion, a bilingual attorney is a practical asset in South Florida, where many clients handle legal matters more comfortably in Spanish.

What the listing shows

The site presents a Florida estate firm with a partner-led structure and four named attorneys. Its work centers on planning documents, probate, and holding structures for personal and business assets. Two of the named attorneys hold degrees from the University of Florida Levin College of Law.