Mark Mastrarrigo practices in the areas of estate planning, probate, guardianship, real estate and general civil litigation and criminal defense. He was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1995, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida in 2014, and has been a resident of South Florida for nearly thirty years. Mark holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Florida and a Juris Doctor from St. Thomas University School of Law.
He has helped those clients who have the need for estate plans with very little or no assets but important goals to be accomplished for their loved ones and estate plans for clients with large financial estates with the need to protect their assets and plan for their loved ones financial care in the future. Mark has assisted those clients with the need for navigating through the probate and guardianship process at a time of loss and need with the utmost of professionalism and compassion. He has also represented individual clients in various types of civil, commercial, and criminal actions, including probate litigation, guardianship litigation, foreclosure defense, corporate litigation, and general civil actions both as plaintiff and defendant.
Mark has had a widely diverse and successful career representing clients that range from the largest corporate entities in the world to the most humble of individual clients with equally important legal issues. He has represented banks and mortgage servicers in title disputes, lien enforcement actions, quiet title actions, safe harbor disputes, declaratory judgment actions, and contested foreclosures.
Mark has tried cases in every judicial circuit in the State of Florida, litigated in more than forty Florida counties before more than one hundred circuit court judges, county court judges, and magistrates. He has also managed a law firm with more than one hundred attorneys and two hundred fifty employees.
Mark has lectured on legal ethics and substantive areas of the law at continuing legal education programs sponsored by voluntary bar associations and private law firms, as well as seminars on estate planning, from the simple estate up to the most complex with asset protection needs and elder law issues.
Education
- Thomas University School of Law: Juris Doctor
- University of Florida: Bachelor’s in Journalism
Admissions
- Florida Bar
- US District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Practice Areas
- Trusts/Wills
- Probate
- Real Estate Law
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship
- Business Law
- Conservatorship
- Elder Law