Tools to Pay for Long-Term Health Care and Protect Your Estate

Tools to Pay for Long-Term Health Care and Protect Your Estate

Medicaid planning Download Our Free Medicaid eBook Retirement should be an age of few worries. However, after the first few weeks or even years of leisure, travel, and time spent with your family, you may begin to harbor growing concerns about protecting your rights and assets as you age – both for yourself, as you […]

6 Mistakes That Can Damage Your Estate

6 Mistakes That Damage Your Estate

Download Our Free Probate eBook The old adage, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me,” applies in most situations, but sometimes you don’t get a chance to learn from your mistakes. This is the case with estate planning. If you write a mistake into your will or fail to take […]

20 Most Common Estate Planning Mistakes

20 Most Common Estate Planning Mistakes

Download Our Free Probate eBook Many people are procrastinators and afraid to face their own mortality. They often fail to properly plan for death, disability and retirement. Clients often tell me that if they knew estate planning was so easy, that they would have done it years ago. Estate planning is often neither complicated nor costly. […]

Buffalo Estate Planning Attorney Discusses Healthcare Proxys

Buffalo Estate Planning Attorney Discusses Healthcare Proxy’s

As a Buffalo Estate Planning Attorney, I recommend that all my clients have a health care proxy and a living will. A health care proxy is a document in which you appoint an agent and an alternate agent to carry out your wishes in the event you become incapacitated. A living will is a document […]

Buffalo Estate Planning Attorney Discusses Springing Power of Attorney

Buffalo Estate Planning Attorney Discusses Springing Power of Attorney

As a Buffalo Estate Planning Attorney, I am often asked what is a springing power of attorney. There are basically two types of powers of attorney in New York State. There is an immediate power of attorney that goes into effect as soon as you sign it, and the other one if the springing power […]

Buffalo Estate Planning Lawyer Discusses Power of Attorney

Buffalo Estate Planning Lawyer Discusses Power of Attorney

As an experienced Buffalo Estate Planning Lawyer, I recommend that clients draft a power of attorney. This is an excellent planning device which would permit someone to take care of your financial matters in the event that you’re not able to do that yourself. It is valid during your lifetime, and you can appoint successors […]

Buffalo Estate Planning Attorney Discusses the Role of the Executor

Buffalo Estate Planning Attorney Discusses the Role of the Executor

As a Buffalo Estate Planning Attorney, I am often asked what the job of the executor is. The job of the executor basically is to carry out the decedent’s wishes in the will, which would involve paying off debts, paying administration expenses, selling property that needs to be liquidated, distributing personal property that’s specified in […]