What Happens to Your Business When You Can’t Run It?
Three Questions to Ask about Your Business Plan 1. If tragedy struck and you suddenly passed away, or fell too ill to work, what would happen to your business? You ...
Estate Planning and the Family Cabin
Leaving the Family Cabin or Farm–and Everything in it! When we leave real property, there is often personal property in it which we may or may not intend to be ...
New York Estate Tax Returns
When to File and Pay New York Estate Tax Like all taxes, there are rules, time limits and forms for completing estate tax returns in New York. An estate has ...
Update Your Inventory of Assets Often
Updating your Inventory Helps Your Beneficiaries When someone passes away, there are piles of paperwork which require attention from the designated personal representative or from the person assigned to take ...
Estate Planning for Modern Families
Modern Families Need Help Planning Estates With more than half of all marriages ending in divorce, and many of those people getting married a second, or even third time, there ...
Revocable Family Trusts in Estate Planning
A Revocable Family Trust A trust which is set up while the grantor is alive is called an inter vivos trust. A Revocable Trust is such a trust. Usually the ...
Power of Attorney in New York
New York Statutory Power of Attorney Form There is a standard form dictated by statute in New York which can be used to assign power of attorney that cannot be ...
HIPAA and Your Family
HIPAA Compliance and Your Family “The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996” (also known as HIPAA) was drafted to protect the privacy of patient information. HIPAA limits the ...
New York Estate Tax vs. Federal Estate Tax
New York Estate Tax Exemption is much Lower than the Federal Exemption While Congress significantly raised the estate tax exemption from $3.5 million dollars to $5 million dollars in December ...
Elder Law and Medicare
Medicare Basics Medicare provides medical care for eligible individuals who are over age 65 or who have certain disabilities under age 65 (such as someone who is blind or has ...