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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.
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.
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.
A pooled income trust is a type of supplemental needs trust that is used to shelter the excess income of a Medicaid recipient.
A small number of participants whose plan has been terminated for 2025 will not be automatically assigned to a new plan.
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.
Medicare covers up to 100 days at a skilled nursing facility. Learn more about what qualifies for coverage and what doesn't.
Naming a child on your bank accounts can lead to numerous consequences, including potential costly estate litigation.
Engaging in estate planning now can ensure that upon incapacitation or death, your assets will be transitioned smoothly to your beneficiaries.
Learn what a descendants trust is and how it can help protect beneficiaries in the future from bad financial decisions, divorce, and more.
The Corporate Transparency Act requires most entities to report “beneficial owners” and those who have substantial control or decision-making authority.
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Burner Prudenti Law Ranked as a 2025 Tier 1 Elder Law Firm by Best Lawyers
Burner Prudenti Law was recognized as a 2025 Tier 1 law firm in elder law and trusts and estates by Best Lawyers!
November 6, 2024 -
Burner Prudenti Law Featured in Forbes & Fortune
Learn more about the history and vision of Burner Prudenti Law in this recent Forbes & Fortune article.
November 4, 2024 -
Six Burner Prudenti Law Lawyers Recognized as Super Lawyers and Super Lawyers Rising Stars
We are proud to announce that six of our lawyers have been recognized by Thomson Reuters as 2025 Super Lawyers and Super Lawyers Rising Stars for the New York Metro area.
October 24, 2024 -
Burner Prudenti Law Named South Fork’s Best Law Firm for the Fifth Year in a Row
Our reputation among our peers, our clients, and within the larger community means everything to us, making local recognitions like this one so special.
August 27, 2024 -
Burner Prudenti Law Lawyers Recognized as 2025 Best Lawyers and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch
Burner Prudenti Law is proud to announce that seven of our lawyers were named either a 2025 Best Lawyer or a Best Lawyer: One to Watch for their respective practice areas.
August 15, 2024 -
Burner Prudenti Law Partner Britt Burner, Esq. Begins 2024-2025 Term As Chair Of The New York State Bar Association Elder Law And Special Needs Section
July 17, 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.
Partner Britt Burner, Esq. explains how often to review your estate planning documents and the life changes that may prompt a review.
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