Florida Lady Bird Deed Pricing

Our Pricing

If you want an affordable way to help your Florida home transfer to your chosen beneficiary without probate, a Florida Lady Bird Deed can be a great option. It is designed to let you keep full control during your lifetime, while setting up a smooth transfer after you pass away.

What's Included

When you hire Yanitza Schoonover for a Florida Lady Bird Deed, you receive:

• Deed preparation based on the information you provide

• A deed formatted for Florida recording requirements

• Step-by-step signing and recording instructions

• Help avoiding common recording errors that can cause delays

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Why Florida Lady Bird Deed Pricing Varies

You may see a wide range of pricing online for a Florida Lady Bird Deed. Some low-cost options are draft-only services with limited support. Other providers charge more because they include additional planning, consultations, or broader estate services. Yanitza Schoonover keeps it simple: a clear flat fee focused on preparing and recording the deed correctly.

Is a Florida Lady Bird Deed Right for You?

A Florida Lady Bird Deed is commonly used by homeowners who want to:

• Avoid probate for a primary residence or second home

• Keep the right to sell or refinance later

• Update beneficiaries if life changes

Every situation is different, especially when mortgages, co-owners, or Medicaid planning are involved. If you have questions, we can point you in the right direction for next steps.

What a Florida Lady Bird Deed Costs Compared With Probate

The honest way to judge the cost of a Florida Lady Bird Deed is against what your family would spend without one. If a Florida home passes under a will, or with no plan at all, someone has to open a probate case before the title can be sold or refinanced.

Florida’s presumed attorney fee for probate

Florida law sets a fee for ordinary probate services that is presumed reasonable, based on the value of the probate estate (Fla. Stat. § 733.6171):

That is attorney time only. Court filing fees, certified copies, publishing the notice to creditors, and the months the property sits in limbo are on top. A Florida homestead is often handled through its own petition to determine homestead status, which is another filing before a title company will insure a sale.

The three ways people pay for this

• A do-it-yourself form. The cheapest up front, and the most expensive when it fails. Missing spouse joinder on a homestead, a wrong legal description, or one missing witness usually surfaces only after the owner has died, when it can no longer be fixed by the person who signed it. See why DIY Lady Bird Deed forms fail.
• A flat-fee attorney-prepared deed. $595 for preparation plus $24.85 to record, $619.85 in total, with the deed drafted for Florida homestead rules and recording requirements.
• A revocable living trust. More comprehensive and usually more expensive, because a trust and its funding cover far more than one property. For many homeowners whose main asset is the house, the deed does the same job for the home. See how the deed compares with a trust and other options.

Have more than one property, a mortgage, a co-owner, or Medicaid on the horizon? Those do not necessarily change the fee, but they change what the deed needs to say. Schedule a consultation and we will tell you up front.