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QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Awarded the pre-eminent “A-V” rating.                  This is the highest possible rating from Martindale-Hubbell ®    Law Directory, the foremost peer review for lawyers as to legal ability and ethical standards
  • Lecturer to lawyers on probate litigation and will contests
  • Former JAG officer in the U.S.A.R.
  • Member of the Florida Bar
  • Member of the Volusia County Bar

EDUCATION:

Seabreeze High School, 1964 Daytona Beach, Florida
Mercer University, 1968, B.A.
University of Florida, 1971, Juris Doctor


AREAS OF PRACTICE:

Mr. Hawkins limits his practice to matters involving wills and trusts.
      His practice includes:
  • Will contest
  • Trust litigation
  • Probate litigation
  • Estate litigation
  • Estate and trust administration
  • Inheritance litigation
  • Breach of fiduciary duty
  • Heir and beneficiary right
  • Faked, forged or altered wills 
  • Invalid execution of wills 
  • Improper execution of trust instrument
  • Removal of Personal Representative
  • Disputes between surviving spouse and children of prior marriages  
  • Elective share disputes
  • Pretermitted spouse or child (testator marries or has a child after making a will)

LOCATION OF PRACTICE AND JURISDICTIONS:
Licensed to practice throughout Florida but engages in probate and trust administration and will contests and trust disputes primarily in:

  • Volusia County: Daytona Beach, DeLand, Deltona, Orange City, Port Orange, New Smyrna Beach, Ormond Beach
  • Flagler County: Bunnell, Palm Coast
  • Putnam County: Palatka
  • St. Johns County: St. Augustine 
Donald E. Hawkins