If you decide to become a legal assistant after completing this courses, you will need to meet the admission requirements of the Legtal Assistant Program. Topics included are issues relating to consideration, assignment, the Statute of Frauds, and the Uniform Commercial Code. Various contract forms are surveyed. Certain aspects of statutory law are also studied. The course includes basic principles of real property law, including concepts of property rights, land interest in real estate, title holders, legal descriptions, deeds of conveyance, financing and mortgages, title commitments and final policies, title abstracting, leasing, closings, brokerage firms, and listing agreements.
Students learn how to handle all general phases of real estate practice.
The basic principles of probate law in Florida, including administration of estates, formal, family, summary and ancillary, probate vs non-probate assets, testate vs intestate estates, creditor s claims, federal estate taxes, and Florida estate taxes. Students will learn how to prepare probate forms. The primary focus is on civil litigation in Florida. The criminal justice system and its relationship to the judicial process, as well as the rights of accused persons, and the administration of justice in the light of the elementary foundations and functions of substantive and adjective law are included in this course. The course is designed to develop a better awareness of case preparation prior to submission to the state attorney, and to survey the different levels of the judicial system, with its relationship to the criminal justice system on state and federal levels.