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A client recently called me from her late father’s apartment in Brooklyn. She had found his will, dated 1998, in a locked file cabinet. The

A client from Brooklyn recently sat in my office, proud to have been named the executor of his father’s will. He was ready to honor

A 32-year-old software engineer buys her first condo in Brooklyn. She has no spouse and no children. Does she need a will? Most people in

A client came to our Manhattan office with a difficult problem—one we see often. His estranged uncle, who he believed named him executor, had been

A client from Queens called my office last month. Her father had passed away, and she was holding a $15,000 bill from the funeral home.

A client recently came into our office. His mother had passed away in her Brooklyn brownstone, and he was named executor of her will. The

A client sat in my Manhattan office recently and said, “I don’t want a somber, traditional funeral. I want my friends and family to gather

A client’s father passed away in his Queens home, leaving behind a carefully maintained 1968 Ford Mustang. The son, named as executor in the will,

A few months ago, a new client came to our Madison Avenue office. His mother, a lifelong Brooklyn resident, had recently passed away. She had

When a Manhattan widow purchases a condominium entirely in her own name, she leaves the closing table feeling absolute financial independence. She does not need

A client once brought me a will they had drafted from an online template. It listed their assets with perfect accuracy but failed to name

Your mother’s will names you as executor. You’re holding the original document, signed two decades ago, and you have one question: Now what? The piece

A successful business owner in Manhattan dies suddenly. He was in his early 50s, always “too busy” for a will. His second wife and his

A client came to my office last month, recently divorced. His will, drafted a decade ago when he lived in Brooklyn, still named his ex-wife

A client came to my office last month, a successful surgeon who had just purchased a condominium in Manhattan. He was proud of the accomplishment,

Introduction Medicaid and home care services play a vital role in ensuring that seniors and individuals with disabilities can age gracefully in the comfort of

A father in Brooklyn wants to add his adult son to the deed of the family brownstone. He’s been told a quitclaim deed is the

An elderly mother in Manhattan, a widow for a decade, has always been fiercely independent. Lately, her children notice things are amiss. Bills are going

When a Brooklyn executor sits down to review a deceased parent’s finances, the most painful surprises rarely hide in the Last Will and Testament. They

A client from Brooklyn called me last week. Her father had passed, and his will named her as the executor of his estate. After a

I once met with three siblings in my Manhattan office who had just spent a year fighting in Surrogate’s Court over their father’s business. He

Years after her aunt passed away in Queens, a client of mine received a letter from a “finder” service offering to recover lost money for

A couple came to my office years ago, a second marriage for both. They lived in a home in Queens he had owned, and they

An executor for a family in Queens recently called my office. The estate administration was finally complete—the assets distributed, the creditors paid, the final accounting