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ESTATE PLANNING AND ELDER LAW
Estate planning and elder law clients of Forman, Corcoran, Clark & Associates receive
expert advice from attorneys who have drafted thousands of estate
plans, have taught other lawyers estate and elder law planning, have
authored and published books on these topics and who are recognized as
some of the leading practitioners of estate planning and elder law.
Clients
can receive advice on everything from a simple matters (such as providing
for health care decisions or guardianships for minor or disabled children)
to complex planning designed to eliminate probate, reduce or eliminate
estate taxes, provide for business succession and protect assets
against long term care costs.
The
firm provides an unusually high level of estate planning and elder law sophistication.
As estate planning client Bernard Sapienza put it, “I never imagined
that I had all of these estate planning options until Forman, Corcoran, Clark
& Associates presented them to me. They have the ability to take
highly complex and often confusing estate planning concepts and make
them simple and practical.”
The
firm’s services include the drafting of:
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Health Care Powers of Attorney/Health
Care Proxies;
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Living Wills and Do Not Resuscitate
Orders;
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Durable (Financial) Powers of
Attorney;
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Wills with Guardianship for minor or
adult disabled children;
·
Revocable Trusts to avoid probate,
spell out a client’s wishes, protect the inheritances of the client’s
heirs against lawsuits, divorces and even the beneficiaries themselves;
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Trusts to reduce or eliminate estate
taxes;
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Irrevocable Trusts to protect assets
from long term care and nursing home costs;
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Special needs trusts;
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Spendthrift Trust;
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Domestic Asset Protection Trusts;
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Life Estates;
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Camp Trusts or Family
Property Trusts to keep homes in the family over generations;
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Qualified Personal Residence Trusts
(QPRT’s);
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Grantor retained Annuity Trusts
(GRAT’s);
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Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
(ILIT’s);
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Charitable Remainder Trusts (CRT’s),
including Charitable Remainder Annuity Trusts and Charitable Remainder
Unitrusts;
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Charitable Lead Trusts (CLT’s);
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Sales to Intentionally Defective
Grantor Trusts;
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Family Limited Partnerships and Family
Limited Liability Companies.
We encourage you to review the Articles entitled
“Estate Planning” and “Questions to Ask an Estate Planning Attorney” in
the Articles section of this website as well as the Profile of Attorney
Forman under the Profiles section of this website.
You should
never expect less!
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