Caregiving, Elder Law Mistakes to Avoid When Establishing Trusts We’ve been examining adding a revocable (a/k/a living or inter vivos) trust or irrevocable trust to your estate plan. Trust … October 28, 2019 4 MIN READ
Estate Planning Advice from Sveen v. Melin on the Importance of Beneficiary Designations In 1997 Ashley Sveen purchased a life insurance policy. Later that year Ashley married Kaye Melin and named Melin as … October 25, 2019 2 MIN READ
Estate Planning Lessons from Groucho Marx: Reducing the Risk of Elder Abuse By the time that the legendary screen actor and comedian Groucho Marx became a senior citizen he had a difficult … October 23, 2019 2 MIN READ
Estate Planning Estate Planning Challenges Faced by Unmarried Couples Statistics show there are an increasing number of older individuals who are divorcing later on in life. There is also … October 21, 2019 2 MIN READ
Estate Planning Estate Planning and Cryptocurrency The introduction of cryptocurrency has created a number of new issues which includes how these digital assets should be addressed … October 16, 2019 2 MIN READ
Estate Planning, Wills 4 Pieces of Advice on Selecting an Executor After the devastation of accepting the loss of a loved one subsides it can be challenging to determine how to … October 15, 2019 2 MIN READ
Caregiving, Elder Law, Elder law estate planning How to Deal with Out-of-State Assets in an Estate Plan It is not uncommon in our region for people to own real property outside of New York State. Increasingly people … October 12, 2019 2 MIN READ
Estate Planning, Wills Estate Planning and Alzheimer’s Following a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s you and your loved one will end up facing a number of serious challenges. For … October 8, 2019 2 MIN READ
Caregiving, Elder Law Safeguarding Estate Planning Documents Clients call this law firm asking for a copy of their will or other estate planning documents because they cannot … October 8, 2019 2 MIN READ
Estate Planning Saving an Estate Charitable Deduction through Qualified Reformation On Dec. 12 2014 the Internal Revenue Service issued Private Letter Ruling 201450003 in which it considered whether an estate … January 14, 2015 2 MIN READ
Newspaper Column Avoiding Elder Financial Abuse Recently, the Internet Crime Complaint Center of the FBI reported almost ten thousand complaints involving tech scams targeting older adults … September 30, 2025 1 MIN READ
Elder Law, Medicaid Planning, Medicaid Trusts Elder Law Issues with Second Marriages Our New York elder law estate planning lawyers understand that handling long-term planning issues can be particularly delicate when there … January 18, 2012 2 MIN READ
