Our Firm

With over 35 years in practice in the areas of special needs planning, elder law, and asset protection and preservation, our firm has the expertise to assist you with your vital legal needs, including:

Estate planning and administration

•  Estate planning
•  Trust and estate administration
•  Probate proceedings

End of life concerns

• Protecting against elder abuse, elder exploitation, and end-of life manipulations
• Living wills and related planning instruments
• Funeral planning
• Pet trusts

Qualifying for Public benefits

• Medicaid & Medicare
• Social security
• Veterans services (qualifying for pensions, compensation, aid and attendance, etc.)

Critical health care matters

• Advanced directives, including durable powers of attorney, health care proxies, living wills, pre-need guardian designations, DNRs, and related matters
• Access to health-care, including health-care providers, facilities (skilled nursing, assisted living, group homes, and other special living arrangements)
• Insurance planning, including disability, health, life, long-term care and other forms of insurance protection

Real Estate

• Sales, purchases, leases, financing arrangements (e.g., reverse mortgages, home equity lines of credit, etc.)
• Special titling of assets (real estate trusts, enhanced life estate sdeeds, etc.)
• Condominium law
• Landlord/tenant law
• Co-ops

Family law

• Pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements
• Grandparents' rights

We also specialize in creditor protection arrangements and assising our clients with special living arrangements (cost-sharing, co-habitation arrangements, etc.).