Staas Law Group, P.L.L.C
Whether helping you secure long term care, assisting you with eligibility for Medicaid benefits, preserving your assets, or ensuring your wishes are honored in a properly executed estate plan, we are committed to providing you the high-quality service and personal attention you deserve, from your initial consultation onward.
Practice Areas
Elder law is like an umbrella that encompasses multiple areas of law. As we age the legal issues that touch our life increase in number and in complexity. The individual has more assets, more retirement benefits, more complex personal and business relationships, and more medical issues. Elder law is the nexus between all these areas of life. Because of these unique needs, we provide legal services to clients that involve:
– Estate Planning such as Wills and Revocable Living Trusts
– Advanced Directives such as Living Wills and Durable Powers of Attorney
– Probate and Trust administrations
– Special needs trust planning and administration
– Assistance with Asset Preservation
– Planning for Medicaid eligibility and Application for Medicaid benefits
– Assisted living or nursing home care issues
If you or a family member is dealing with a legal problem in one or more of these legal areas, you are not alone. We are here and available to listen and help you with your case. For over 25 years we have been assisting clients in these areas, and we would like to do the same for you. We will pay attention to every detail of your case in order to craft the most appropriate solution for your particular circumstances. Call us today to schedule a consultation 941-408-8555.
Kevin G. Staas
Attorney Staas graduated from Bowling Green State University with a B.A. in 1995 and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law with a J.D. in 1998. In 2000, he was admitted to the Florida and U.S. District Courts. He has been a member of The Florida Bar (Elder law section and Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Sections), the Academy of Florida Elder Law Attorneys, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and the Sarasota County Bar Association. Kevin has served as a member of the Advisory Board and Keiser University, the Sarasota County Bar South County Division Steering Committee, and is a former director of the Venice-Englewood Bar Association. Kevin was also a charter member of the Thomas E. Penick American Elder Law Inn of Court, the first of its kind in the United States. He is a native of Toledo, Ohio.
Julie Collins
Attorney Collins received her B.S. cum laude from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1992. She graduated from the Stetson University College of Law in 1998 with honors. She has been admitted to the Florida Bar and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. She is also a member of the Sarasota Bar Association, Florida Association of Women Lawyers, and the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce.
