Estate Planning and Administration
Suffolk County, New York, Estate Planning Attorneys
If you need experienced and reliable advice about planning for the transfer of assets to the next generation, as well as for protecting your interests in the event of incapacity from an injury or illness, contact the Long Island estate planning lawyers at Goldstein, Rubinton, Goldstein & DiFazio in Huntington. We also provide probate and trust administration services, including advice for successor trustees after the trustor's death.
Estate Planning. While a properly drafted last will and testament is an essential instrument for expressing your intentions in the event of your death as to matters such as guardianship of minor children, it is not always the most effective means of transferring wealth. If tax planning is a concern for your estate, we will show you how credit shelter trusts, family partnerships or business succession planning, irrevocable life insurance trusts, postnuptial agreements, or revocable living trusts can keep assets out of probate, reduce exposure to taxation, and help maximize the value of your federal estate tax exemptions.
At Goldstein, Rubinton wills and trusts attorney can also advise you about special needs trusts for the ongoing care of a disabled or vulnerable family member, and about protecting your own financial and medical interests through a durable power of attorney and an advance directive to physicians. These instruments are intended to make sure that there is no confusion about your intentions in the event of your incapacity.
Probate, Estate, and Trust Administration. We advise and represent executors, personal representatives, successor trustees, heirs, and beneficiaries in matters concerning the probate of wills, the postmortem administration of trusts, and disputes in New York Surrogate's Court such as will contests, asset valuation problems, or breach of fiduciary duty.
In the probate of wills, we assist in the assembly and inventory of assets, review of claims against the estate, payment of debts, filing of tax returns, interim and final accountings, and distribution of assets to heirs and legatees. In trust administration, we can help successor trustees with problems ranging from the proper transfer of assets into a trust to actions for modification of the terms of the trust. We also represent executors or trustees in controversies concerning title to particular assets.
Our sophisticated understanding of estate planning, probate procedures, and trust administration can save you from anxiety and unnecessary expense. To learn more about the range of our services in the context of your situation, contact a Long Island estate planning attorney at Goldstein, Rubinton, Goldstein & DiFazio.
Goldstein, Rubinton, Goldstein & DiFazio P.C.
18 West Carver Street
Huntington NY 11743
Telephone: (631) 421-9051
Fax: (631) 421-9122
The Long Island law firm of Goldstein, Rubinton, Goldstein & DiFazio P.C. in Huntington, New York, represents clients in divorce and family law cases, personal injury negligence claims, estate planning and administration, land use and zoning issues, and business formation and transactions in Suffolk County, Nassau County, Asharoken, Babylon, Bay Shore, Brookhaven, Brookville, Centerport, Cold Spring Harbor, Commack, Deer Park, Dix Hills, East Hampton, East Northport, Farmingdale, Fort Salonga, Greenlawn, Halesite, Hauppauge, Huntington, Huntington Bay, Huntington Station, Islip, Kings Park, Lindenhurst, Laurel Hollow, Lloyd Harbor, Melville, Muttontown, Nissequogue, Northport, Oyster Bay, Oyster Bay Cove, Plainview, Riverhead, Rockville Centre, Salamanca, Smithtown, Syosett, and Woodbury.
