Real Estate - We represent buyers, sellers, and lenders in commercial and residential real estate transactions, including single and muli-family dwellings, coops, condos, new construction, and commercial buildings.
We represent banks and mortgage holders in the enforcement of mortgages and security agreements through forclosure proceedings. We handle other types of real estate litigation, including partition actions, actions for specific performance and quiet title actions.
Estate Planning & Administration - We offer a full range of services to address your estate planning needs in order to preserve wealth and ensure your decisions are followed in the event of future incapacity or incompetence, including the preparation of wills, powers of attorney, health care proxies, living and testamentary trusts. Various alternatives are utilized to maximize a clients estate planning goals while minimizing income, gift, estate, inheritance and generation-skipping tax consequences, including the use of testamentary and intervivos credit and marital trusts, generation-skipping trusts, revocable and irrevocable trusts, insurance trusts, special needs trusts, charitable remainder and charitable lead trusts, personal residence trusts, GRATS, GRUTS, family partnerships, charitable foundations and other sophisticated estate planning tools.
We also provide all necessary legal and support services to probate and administer the estate upond death. We will address any disputes, resolve claims, administer payment of estate taxes, and distribute estate assets to the beneficiaries in an efficient manner. We also handle estate-related litigation and we are committed to resolving such litigation by cost-effective and respectable means.
Elder Law - Our firm provides legal representation for elderly clients and their families on issues of importance to senior citizens including Medicaid planning, fair hearings, guardianship proceedings and medical decision making.
Business Law - We will advise you of the most beneficial entity to select while operating your business for optimum results. We perform our anaylsis keeping in mind that you want to minimize your taxes while maximizing your flexibility and liability protection.
Our firm represents commercial clients in the formation and governance of various business entities, including corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, (both limited and general) and sole proprietorships. We assist our clients in preparing for various business contingencies through the use of shareholders' agreements, partnership agreements and operating agreements. We represent our clients in the purchase and sale of businesses and franchises from negotiation through contract and closing. Litigation services are provided to defend or assert claims of our commercial clients. Our firm also provides assistance in the winding down or dissolution of a business.
|
