Goshen solo practice a few minutes from the Orange County Surrogate's Court, also serving Ulster, Sullivan and Rockland. Walks a surviving spouse or child through being appointed executor or administrator, marshaling scattered accounts, filing the inventory, paying creditors and taxes, filing the decedent's final return and the estate return, and filing the final account with the court. Former chairman of the Orange County Bar Association Elder Law Committee.

Solo PracticeServes 4 countiesFree consultationEstate PlanningProbateElder LawTax PlanningSpecial Needs PlanningMedicaid Planning

Goshen (Orange County) firm with a second office in Monticello, in Sullivan County. Its wealth-preservation group sees that a decedent's assets are distributed correctly and on time through probate for individually owned property and trust administration for assets passing under a trust instrument, and takes on guardianships; its litigation group handles estate and trust disputes among heirs. Most of its attorneys have been named to the Upstate New York Super Lawyers list.

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New Windsor (Orange County) firm whose estate group handles the probate and administration of a loved one's estate, simple or complex, including the tasks that come with it such as selling estate real property and filing any estate tax returns. Also advises on wills, trusts, health care proxies and powers of attorney, elder law and Medicaid and nursing-home planning, guardianship proceedings and special needs trusts. The group includes members of the Hudson Valley Estate Planning Council.

Serves 1 countyEstate PlanningProbateElder LawGuardianshipSpecial Needs PlanningMedicaid Planning

New York elder law and estate planning firm working from twelve offices — Albany, five on Long Island, three in the Mid-Hudson Valley, New City and White Plains, and Staten Island. Guides executors and families through probate and estate administration, and handles trusts built to keep an estate out of Surrogate's Court, Medicaid asset protection, Medicaid applications and estate tax savings. Nine lawyers and seventeen paralegals and support staff, practicing since 1991; consultations are no-cost, virtual or in person, and the firm takes uncontested probate only.

Since 1991Serves the whole stateFree consultationVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawTax Planning+3

Millbrook and Poughkeepsie offices appearing before the Dutchess County Surrogate's Court. Advises trustees and executors on their fiduciary duties and walks administrators through probate and intestate administration, then litigates the estates that go wrong — will and trust contests, accounting proceedings and missing-asset claims. A twenty-attorney bench spanning New York and Connecticut.

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Middletown firm in Orange County handling estate planning and administration alongside its litigation and real estate work. Prepares trusts, powers of attorney, living wills and health care proxies, and takes on contested matters including will contests, estate litigation and guardianship proceedings. One of the oldest firms in the Hudson Valley, tracing its roots to 1885.

Since 1885Serves 1 countyFree consultationEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationElder LawGuardianship+2