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Consider Estate Planning Charitable Gifting On Giving Tuesday 2024

There are several ways one can make a charitable gift as part of their estate plan. First and foremost, you can always give during life.

November 27, 2024
What Are the Tax Implications of Transferring Property Into a Trust?

While a trust technically becomes the owner of your home when you sign a deed transferring ownership to a grantor trust, rest assured that you will still receive the same real estate tax exemptions and/or benefits that you received when your home was owned in your individual name.

November 19, 2024
What is Better, a Will or a Trust?

Whether a trust or last will and testament (“will”) is better for you is dependent on your assets, circumstances, and personal goals. Every person is different and therefore every estate plan should be tailored to the individual.

November 14, 2024
Pooled Trusts Can Help New Yorkers Qualify for Community Medicaid

A pooled income trust is a type of supplemental needs trust that is used to shelter the excess income of a Medicaid recipient.

November 12, 2024
Changes to Medicare Advantage Plans 2025

A small number of participants whose plan has been terminated for 2025 will not be automatically assigned to a new plan.

October 25, 2024
What is the Difference Between a Marital Trust and a Bypass Trust?

Though marital trusts and bypass trusts differ in detail, together they serve as a power tool for married couples' looking to shield their assets from estate taxes.

October 23, 2024
How Many Days Does Medicare Cover in a Rehab Facility?

Medicare covers up to 100 days at a skilled nursing facility. Learn more about what qualifies for coverage and what doesn't.

October 18, 2024
Does a Joint Account Avoid Probate?

Naming a child on your bank accounts can lead to numerous consequences, including potential costly estate litigation.

September 27, 2024
Why Do I Need to Engage in Estate Planning?

Engaging in estate planning now can ensure that upon incapacitation or death, your assets will be transitioned smoothly to your beneficiaries.

September 26, 2024
Estate Planning for Beneficiaries: How to Protect Children With a Descendants Trust

Learn what a descendants trust is and how it can help protect beneficiaries in the future from bad financial decisions, divorce, and more.

September 23, 2024
Who Does the Corporate Transparency Act Apply To?

The Corporate Transparency Act requires most entities to report “beneficial owners” and those who have substantial control or decision-making authority.

September 21, 2024

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In this guest post by Maria Torroella Carney, MD, FACP, learn what contributes to aging and what can be done to encourage healthy aging.

September 17, 2024 Read Article

Partner Britt Burner, Esq. explains how often to review your estate planning documents and the life changes that may prompt a review.

May 1, 2024 Read Article

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.

March 12, 2024 Read Article

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.”

March 8, 2024 Read Article

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.

November 11, 2023 Read Article

“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

June 10, 2020 Read Article