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I often meet with families in our Manhattan office holding a document their parent downloaded from the internet. It’s signed, but there’s only one witness

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

I once met with a family in our office, three adult siblings from Cobble Hill. Their late father, a successful small business owner, had spent

I recently met with a couple in their early thirties who had just purchased their first co-op in Brooklyn. They had no children and felt

A client recently came into my Manhattan office with his will, drafted a decade ago. He was proud of it—it was clear, simple, and left

I often meet with clients who have remarried. A common situation is a widower with two adult children who marries a woman with a child

A few years ago, a client came to our Manhattan office. Her husband had passed away nearly a decade earlier. She was now looking to

A client from Brooklyn came to my office last week with what seemed like a simple plan. She wanted to add her son’s name to

I’ve seen it happen more than once in Brooklyn’s Surrogate’s Court. A family comes in with what they believe is a perfectly valid will, signed

I often meet families after a loved one has passed away, and one of the first questions I ask is whether they owned their Brooklyn

I once worked with the family of a successful Manhattan restaurant owner. He had built a beloved neighborhood institution from the ground up over 30

An executor for a parent’s estate in Brooklyn is sorting through a lifetime of paperwork. Among the bank statements and the will, they find a

I recently met with a couple who had been together for twenty years but only legally married for eight. They bought their Brooklyn brownstone in

A client once came to our Manhattan office with a difficult problem. Years ago, her parents had established a substantial trust for her brother, who

I once worked with a family whose matriarch had passed away in Manhattan. Her will was clear and her assets were organized, but the family

A widow in Brooklyn discovers her late husband’s will leaves his entire multimillion-dollar business to a partner she’s never met. The family home, their joint

When a Manhattan family recently brought me a will their father had downloaded from a legal website, it looked entirely official. It featured a barcode

When a Manhattan family loses a parent, they assume a Last Will and Testament makes the next steps simple. They arrive at Surrogate’s Court with

When a Queens family loses a parent who left the family home in her sole name, the next nine to twelve months belong to Surrogate’s

When an adult child takes on the role of executor after a parent dies, the first few weeks are often spent tearing apart filing cabinets

A client from Queens recently came into our Manhattan office with a common and pressing concern. Her mother had just passed away, and she was