Kevin A. Kyle

**STOP. BEFORE YOU CONSIDER USING THIS FIRM, READ THIS.** My mother was fighting four types of cancer, including brain cancer, when she came to this firm. She told our family she wanted one thing: change the percentages in her existing will so my special needs sister would get more and be set up for life after my mother was gone. A few simple changes. That's it. Here's what she got instead. Not an amendment. Not a codicil. A brand-new 29-page revocable trust. As her son and the person she named to handle her estate, I didn't learn about it until the draft showed up in my inbox. Her first appointment was May 23, 2025. The first draft I can find in her email arrived October 22, 2025. Five months. By then she was in and out of the hospital with serious complications. She died on November 4. Thirteen days later. There was no time left to fix anything. The attorney behind this, Kevin A. Kyle, advertises himself as Florida Board Certified in both Wills, Trusts & Estates and Tax. The document he created refers to my sister's benefits from the "State of California." My mother lived in Florida. My sister lives in Florida. My sister has never even set foot in California. It misspells my other sister's name throughout. It also gets my name wrong. My sister already had a special needs trust, created years ago for exactly this purpose, and my mother's will already directed her share into it. All that needed to change was the percentage. Instead of using the trust that already existed, the firm wrote a brand-new one into a brand-new document. More documents, more drafting, more hours. You can draw your own conclusions. It gets worse. The draft includes pages on operating her businesses, forming partnerships, handling S-corporation stock, and *trading securities on margin*. She had no business. No partners. She wasn't trading on margin. She was a retired woman fighting cancer who wanted to take care of her disabled daughter. When I found out, I told them to stop. She asked for an edit to her will, not a brand-new trust. My mother never signed a single page. After she died, they billed her estate. I asked for the engagement agreement she signed. The attorney wrote back that there wasn't one, no formal retainer or document of any kind, and that he "generally take[s] people at their word they are going to pay." I asked for itemized billing on December 4, 2025. It never came. Then they filed a claim against her estate, and her estate could not be closed until it was resolved. As the personal representative, I've spent months cleaning up a mess that started with a few simple changes. Ask yourself a few questions before even thinking of contacting this "firm": Why does a simple percentage change on an existing will turn into a 29-page trust? Why build a new special needs trust when one already existed and her will already funded it? Why does it take five months to email a draft to a woman fighting four cancers? Why does a double board-certified attorney's Florida estate plan cite California? Why does a retired cancer patient's plan include pages about running businesses and margin trading? Why is there no written agreement with a seriously ill client? Why is a dead woman's estate paying for documents she never signed? All the problems point back to the same place. Would you want your loved one to go through this? The grief it has caused my family isn't over, and it won't be for a long time. My mother's last wish was to leave more to my sister. That never happened. Now I'm paying my own attorneys, at great cost and time, to clean up what's left of what should have been a simple change to an existing will. She spent her last months fighting for her life. She wanted to know my sister would be taken care of. If you have an elderly or sick parent, do not send them here. Not for a quick update. Not for a simple change. Not for anything.

Kevin was referred to us via our banker and we couldn't be more pleased with his services.
This was short notice on an important transaction when we lost confidence in our current representation. Kevin stepped in and went above and beyond when things were waylaid by other parties.
We look forward to working with him and his team on wealth planning and other future legal needs.

My husband and I had a wonderful experience with Kevin Kyle. He is very knowledgeable and thoroughly explained everything to us. We 100% recommend him for estate planning.