Women in Transition : Navigating the Legal and Financial Challenges in Your Life

This book is intended to give women a roadmap to legal and financial protections, security, and opportunities they can create for themselves as they transition from one life phase to another-whether the transition is by choice or fate. It establishes a "how to" process so that a woman can protect herself. Further, it explores the legal, financial and estate planning ramifications women face as they transition through each life phase - leaving home the first time, choosing to marry (or not), building a career, having children or living without children, divorcing, facing a life crisis and, ultimately, being alone again after the death of a spouse or partner. Failure to do so can make or break their future security.

Peggy is a founding partner of The Law Offices of Hoyt & Bryan, a family wealth and legacy planning law firm specializing in wills, trusts and estates and elder law.  She is a three-time Stetson University graduate receiving her B.B.A., cum laude, in 1981, her M.B.A. in 1982 and her J.D., cum laude, in 1993. Her passion is her pets - all of them - including 3 horses, 5 dogs and 4 cats!  She enjoys competitive trail and limited distance endurance riding.

Peggy practices in the areas of family wealth and legacy counselling, including trust and estate planning and administration, elder law, small business creation, succession and exit planning, real estate transactions and animal law.

In addition to her law degree, she holds a Florida real estate license. Peggy formerly held a NASD Series 7 license and health, life and variable annuities licenses. She serves as a certified FINRA Arbitrator and is also a Florida Circuit Court Mediator concentrating in family business and estate matters. Peggy holds Board Certifications from the Florida Bar in Wills, Trusts, and Estates and Elder Law.

Peggy and two friends, Kim Radcliffe and Casey Taylor have recently founded the Center for Animal Advocacy, a Central Florida law firm dedicated to legal issues related to animals and the people who love them.