Jericho (Nassau County) firm filing for Long Island families in the Nassau and Suffolk Surrogate's Courts. Handles probate, letters of administration and estate administration, wills and trusts, trustee and beneficiary representation, elder law and special-needs planning. Attorneys handle each case personally rather than passing it to staff.

Serves 2 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawGuardianship+2

Lake Success (Nassau County) firm guiding executors, administrators, trustees and beneficiaries through New York Surrogate's Court — probate, estate and trust administration, and contested estates and objections to a will or to fiduciary conduct. Also handles estate planning, retirement-distribution planning, Medicaid and elder law. Absorbed the Berwitz & DiTata estate practice.

Since 2000Serves 9 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+4

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

Brooklyn firm on Avenue L handling probate and estate administration for New York families, with a second office in Manhattan. Walks executors through collecting assets, obtaining the estate EIN, opening the estate account, paying debts and taxes, transferring estate property and closing the estate, and represents administrators distributing an intestate estate under EPTL 4-1.1. Many matters are billed at a flat fee.

Serves 3 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation+5

Garden City practice with by-appointment offices in Hauppauge and Harrison, covering probate and trust administration for Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester families. Walks executors and trustees through appointment, managing assets, paying debts, and distributing property, including the case where assets were never funded into the trust and must go through probate separately. Also handles Medicaid and nursing-home planning, special-needs and blended-family planning, and IRA and retirement planning. Anthony Moccia began as a law clerk at the firm and took ownership in May of 2021.

Solo PracticeServes 3 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawSpecial Needs PlanningAsset Protection

Garden City firm on Old Country Road serving Nassau, Suffolk, and the New York City boroughs. Works alongside executors and trustees to locate, gather and liquidate assets, notify creditors and review claims within the seven-month Letters Testamentary window, file the decedent's final income and estate tax returns, prepare estate accountings and releases, and distribute to beneficiaries. Three attorneys, led by a Certified Elder Law Attorney, also handling Medicaid planning and applications, special-needs planning, and asset protection.

Since 1991Serves 7 countiesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateElder LawSpecial Needs Planning+2