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The call every adult child dreads often comes on a Tuesday afternoon. Your mother, living alone in her Brooklyn apartment, has had a fall. She’s

A client once came to my office with her late husband’s will. He was a successful Manhattan entrepreneur who, after a late-in-life disagreement, had rewritten

A founder of a successful Manhattan fund came to my office last month. His concern was not market volatility or his fund’s performance. He pointed

A family in Brooklyn watches as their late father’s estate sits in limbo. The executor, their uncle, was chosen years ago in a moment of

A client recently came to our Manhattan office with a story I have heard too many times. Her brother had passed away, leaving a trust

A client recently sat in my Manhattan office, wrestling with a decision that many families face. He needed to appoint a trustee for the trust

A client recently came to our Manhattan office with a difficult problem. His father had passed away, leaving a will that named him as the

A family in Manhattan is grieving the loss of their father. Then the probate petition arrives. The will they see is not the one they

I recently met with a business owner in Manhattan who was creating a trust to hold his company shares for his two children. “I’ll be

When a parent passes away in Manhattan, one of their children is often named as the executor in the will. That son or daughter is

An executor for a Manhattan estate receives Letters Testamentary from the Surrogate’s Court. She has the will, she has the authority—but she has no clear

I’ve seen it happen more times than I can count. A family in Staten Island loses a parent, and in their grief, they discover there

A family inherits their parents’ home on Long Island. The will names one of the three children as executor, and the instructions are simple: sell

A couple came into my Manhattan office last month with a stack of papers and a sense of accomplishment. They had downloaded a will template,

I once worked with a family whose patriarch had built a successful manufacturing business in Queens over 40 years. When he died unexpectedly, his will

I recently met with a family whose father had passed away in Brooklyn. He had a will, which they believed made everything simple. They were

I recently sat with a couple in their late 60s, a second marriage for both. He had built a successful business in Manhattan and wanted

Consider a family home in Brooklyn. The owner passes away in early January. The children do what most grieving families do—they lock the doors, secure

I once sat with a family whose patriarch had spent 50 years building a formidable real estate portfolio in Brooklyn. His children, accomplished in their

A dear friend loses her husband. After the service, you visit her at her Brooklyn apartment. You sit at her kitchen table, and amid the

A young couple in Manhattan wants to buy their first apartment. He has a steady income, but his credit is poor. She has a pristine

The Founder’s Blind Spot I once met with the co-founders of a promising tech startup in Manhattan. They had everything mapped out—their cap table, their

When most people picture a lawyer, they see a litigator—someone arguing before a judge, sparring with opposing counsel. They imagine conflict, high stakes, and the