Scott Smylie

Attorney Scott Smylie’s estate planning practice focuses on helping families enhance their lives today and secure their futures tomorrow. He excels in guiding his clients through the often confusing maze of financial and legal decisions to create plans that ensure the well-being of their families and the accomplishment of cherished family goals.

His considerable legal expertise includes family protection, wealth preservation, and values-based planning, as well as planning strategies for unmarried couples and divorced individuals. Whether you are married or single, with a traditional family or blended one, just starting out or looking back on a life well-lived, Scott will help you to craft a plan that achieves your goals for your loved ones today and for years to come.

Scott graduated cum laude in his law school class from University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2003. After graduation, Scott was an associate at the prestigious law firm of Foley & Lardner, LLP, where he represented lenders in commercial real estate transactions. During the real estate downturn, Scott ran Regent Law Firm with a partner doing foreclosure defense, Chapter 7 and 13 bankruptcies, and debt settlement.

Scott has served as general counsel for a start up organization in the “eatertainment” restaurant business, a real estate development company, and for his church. Scott saw a need to serve families with estate planning needs and started Smylie Law Firm in 2023. Beyond his professional accomplishments, Scott is dedicated to his family. He is married to his wife, Nichole, and is the proud dad of Gideon, Luke, and Isaac.

In his free time, Scott enjoys boating and traveling, especially to the Caribbean, and is committed to giving back to his community through serving as a trustee at his church and teaching at the Jesus Lab.