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Handling Stocks in a Probate Estate
While cash assets held in checking and savings accounts can be more straightforward to transfer to an estate, navigating a decedent’s interest in shares of stock can be a daunting task.
Medical aid in dying is not permitted by New York State law just yet, but it is making its way through the state legislature.
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Estate Planning for Blended Families: Insights from Britt Burner
Britt Burner, Partner at Burner Prudenti Law, P.C., recently spoke at a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) event hosted by the Columbian Lawyers Association of Brooklyn
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Burner Prudenti Named TBR News Media Reader’s Choice for Best Attorney / Lawyer
Burner Prudenti is honored to share that we were named the Best Attorney / Lawyer in the 2024 TBR Readers’ Choice issue!
March 31, 2025
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The federal government and the marketplace are undergoing revolutionary changes that will inevitably transform the business of law and operation of courts. The question arising from the uncertainty is, how so?
In this guest post by Maria Torroella Carney, MD, FACP, learn what contributes to aging and what can be done to encourage healthy aging.
According to multiple published reports, comedian Jay Leno is asking a California court to grant him authority over the financial affairs of his wife Mavis, who is apparently suffering from severe dementia.
In his first Law Day address, New York’s Chief Judge complained of the steady erosion of civics knowledge, and the resultant decline in civility, warning that, “The Framers knew that the consequence of constitutional ignorance, and being guided by passion rather than reason, was armed mobs.”
In this season of gratitude, it’s appropriate to recall the “four freedoms” — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear, and freedom from want — articulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the threshold of World War II and illustrated so memorably in Norman Rockwell’s iconic renditions.
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?” – Rabbi Hillel
