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A couple buys a home in Brooklyn in their twenties. Twenty years and a divorce later, one name must come off the deed. In another

A client came to me last year with a difficult problem. Her father, a successful Brooklyn real estate developer, had passed away with a simple

A client recently came to my office with a copy of his mother’s will. He was named executor, a role he was prepared to fill.

A client recently came into my Manhattan office with a will that had just been unsealed. His mother had named him as the executor of

The rumor that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen is just that—a rumor. His body was cremated, and the ashes are interred in Glendale, California. The

A couple buys their first brownstone in Park Slope. They have their first child, and in a flurry of responsible activity, they download a will

I often meet families for the first time when they are in crisis. A loved one has passed away, and they arrive at our Manhattan

A Queens family loses its matriarch. Her son is named executor in the will, and his sister is a primary beneficiary. A notice of probate

A client recently sat in my office and told me about the Brooklyn brownstone his parents bought in 1978. It was their foothold in America,

A client’s mother passes away in her Queens home, the same one she’s lived in for 50 years. Her adult children assume they inherit the

I once met with a couple from Manhattan who had just signed their first wills. They were relieved, believing their planning was complete. They had

I once met with a family whose patriarch, a successful Manhattan restaurant owner, had passed away suddenly. He had a will, and his children assumed

A client sat in my office last week and asked a question I hear almost every day. “Russel, just give me a number. What does

A few years ago, a client’s son came to our office. His mother, living in a Brooklyn nursing home, had given him a durable power

A client’s niece recently called me from her late uncle’s apartment in Queens. She had been named the executor of his will. On the dining

Imagine a family matriarch in Brooklyn. She has three adult children and plans to leave them her brownstone and savings in equal shares. For decades,

I recently met with a family from Brooklyn whose father had just passed away. He was a meticulous man who had, they thought, done everything

Clients often begin our first meeting with a direct question: “So, what’s the average cost of a trust?” It’s a fair question. But it’s like

Your mother’s name is on the deed to the family home in Queens, but it’s also on a 30-year mortgage with ten years left. After

A client once came to my office with a common New York story. He and his second wife lived in a Brooklyn brownstone he’d owned

A family in Todt Hill loses its patriarch, a successful small business owner. His will seems clear, naming his wife as the executor and heir.

When a Brooklyn family brings me a Last Will and Testament printed off a popular internet legal website, the first thing I look at is

A family from Queens sat in my office last week, facing a situation I see far too often. Their mother had moved into a skilled