Estate Planning What’s In a Name? Publicity Rights of Deceased Celebrities What’s In a Name Depends on Who You Are. It Could Be Hundreds of Millions According to the IRS … June 13, 2016 3 MIN READ
Estate Planning Back to Basics: No Contest Clause in New York Wills One of the many goals of estate planning is to limit the amount of fighting that will occur once a … June 10, 2016 2 MIN READ
Estate Planning New York’s Family Health Care Decisions Act In a previous post about healthcare and end of life decision making we discussed the importance of the election of … June 7, 2016 2 MIN READ
Long Term Care Planning, Trust Transfers/Gifts Health Care Proxy: What is Their Role in my Health Care Decisionmaking? End of life planning can be a very daunting task and is one many individuals do not want to face … June 6, 2016 2 MIN READ
Estate Planning, Estate Taxes, Wills Protecting Your Individual Retirement Account from Creditors STATE SPECIFIC PROTECTIONS The current aggregate value of retirement assets in America is roughly $21 trillion with individual retirement accounts … June 4, 2016 2 MIN READ
Estate Planning, Living Trusts PROPOSALS TO LIMIT THE GENERATION SKIPPING TRANSFER TAX EXEMPTION PROPOSAL TO MOVE BACK TO PREVIOUS TRUST LAWS As this blog discussed in the recent past dynasty trusts are trusts … June 1, 2016 2 MIN READ
Asset Protection, Estate Administration, Estate Planning BACK TO THE BASICS – HOW TO BE AN EXECUTOR AN IMPORTANT AND SOMETIMES THANKLESS JOB There are times in life when we all will have to do or engage … May 30, 2016 2 MIN READ
Estate Planning, Wills WHAT DOCUMENTS TO KEEP AND WHAT TO SHRED SPRING CLEANING TIME MEANS CLEARING OLD PAPERWORK With tax day over and the need to collect and forward any … May 27, 2016 2 MIN READ
Estate Planning, Wills HOW TO HELP YOUR EXECUTOR CHOOSING THE RIGHT PERSON AND STEPS TO TAKE As noted in a previous blog being an executor of an … May 24, 2016 2 MIN READ
Elder Law Green House Homes for the Elderly In decades and centuries past when people got old their children and younger relatives would care for them until they … January 7, 2015 2 MIN READ
Elder Law, Elder law estate planning Home Care and Hospice Services Still Uncertain about Federal Vaccine Requirements Frustration is growing for medical professionals including those who work at hospices as they wait for President Biden to reveal … November 11, 2021 2 MIN READ
Estate Planning, Wills Does Dementia Affect the Validity of a Will? If a family is dragged into a drawn-out court battle over an estate planning issue chances are it is a … November 14, 2013 2 MIN READ