Diana Verdery is a Florida Registered Paralegal and has worked as a Paralegal in Clearwater her entire career. She has an Associate of Science Degree in Legal Secretary and Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business. Diana has a varied legal background including general litigation, trial work, probate, estate planning, real estate, corporate law, and securities.
Business Formation
Goza and Hall P.A. assists clients in a range of business planning and organizational matters. Our attorneys help entrepreneurs structure their businesses in a manner that best suits their needs and protects them from legal and financial liabilities. As businesses grow, we offer comprehensive legal support that accommodates all stages of business progression. During our decades of practice, we have amassed a wealth of knowledge regarding...
Business Disputes
Established in 1945, the Clearwater law firm of Goza and Hall P.A. assists individuals and businesses in Tampa Bay and throughout Florida in the areas of estate planning, probate and trust administration, real estate, and corporate and business law. With decades of experience, our attorneys offer their clients a high standard of personal attention, professionalism, and quality of work at a reasonable cost. Please
Business Transactions
Limited Liability Companies
In June, 2010, the Florida Supreme Court issued an opinion concerning limited liability companies in the State of Florida. The majority opinion held that a court may require a judgment debtor to surrender all right, title and interest in the debtor’s single-member limited liability company to satisfy an outstanding judgment. This created quite a concern to members of limited liability companies in the State of Florida since the existing law had always been that a creditor’s only recourse against a limited liability company, whether it was a single-member or a multi-member, would be to get a charging order against the limited liability company. A charging order only allowed the creditor to get any distributions from the limited liability company, and if the owner of the limited liability company did not make any distributions to the individual members, then the creditor got nothing. The effect of the Supreme Court decision changed that to allow creditors to reach a single-member limited liability company’s assets. In addition, the opinion did not expressly limit the applicability to single-member limited liability companies. This created more uncertainty in connection with multi-member limited liability companies in the State of Florida.
Barbara Brown has worked for Goza and Hall P.A. since 1993. She is a legal assistant with significant experience and knowledge in handling all real estate matters, including preparation of residential and commercial real estate contracts, closings of real estate transactions (commercial and residential), preparation and review of title searches, title commitments and policies, residential and commercial lease transactions, business sales (asset or stock sales), and 1031 exchanges. Additionally, Barbara is proficient in
Real Estate Transactions
Mr. Hall specializes in estate planning, trusts and wills, irrevocable life insurance trusts, charitable remainder trusts, limited partnerships and limited liability companies, probate, and real estate. His extensive experience includes successfully handling several federal estate tax audits, including discounting of assets in connection with estates and the reduction of the federal estate taxes. He has also been instrumental in conducting complicated commercial real estate transactions, including the sale and purchase of shopping centers, office buildings, and 1031 exchanges. Mr. Hall has lectured on the topics of estate planning, revocable living trusts and federal estate tax issues.
Landlord-Tenant Disputes
With decades of experience in the courts throughout Florida, we represent clients in disputes arising from any of our practice areas, and enjoy an active general civil litigation practice. Our attorneys are highly experienced and effective litigators handling legal actions that evolve from the other practice areas of the firm, including but not limited to landlord-tenant law, homeowners' association (HOA) issues, and mortgage foreclosures.
Our attorneys offer expertise in estate planning and wealth transfer, which requires consideration of the client's assets and debts, family dynamics, and the client's goals and objectives. Careful attention must be paid to taxation issues, including potential estate, gift, income and generation-skipping transfer tax consequences. As part of the estate planning process, we provide comprehensive, tax-sensitive estate planning documents tailored to the individual needs of each client, including...
Wills
Handling estate planning matters, such as wills, revocable living trusts, irrevocable trusts, durable power of attorneys, and living wills. She also has expertise in handling corporate and business transactions, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and asset sale transactions.
Trusts
Our attorneys and highly skilled staff have significant experience in probate administration and trust administration. Our probate and trust administration services include representing clients in matters involving...
In the case of a limited liability company having only one member, the new law requires the judgment creditor to go to Court to establish to the satisfaction of the court that distributions under a charging order will not satisfy the judgment within a reasonable time, and request the court to order the sale of that interest in the limited liability company pursuant to a foreclosure sale. With the court order of a foreclosure sale of the judgment debtor’s interest in the single-member limited liability company, then the purchaser of a court-ordered foreclosure sale can obtain the single member’s entire limited liability company interest and become the member of the limited liability company.
Tax Law
In the course of providing our clients with financial and tax planning and preparation services, employments counseling, bankruptcy activities, certain real estate services, and other certain financial services, we receive significant personal information about you either from you or with your authorization. If you are a current of former client of Goza and Hall, P.A. you should know that all information that receive about you is held in extreme confidence, and is not released to any person or entity outside this law firm, except as agreed upon by you, or as required under applicable law.