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Is My Lost Will Useless?

Is My Lost Will Useless in New York? Losing a will can be a significant concern for anyone involved in estate planning or administration. In

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Battling Against Deportation

Battling Against Deportation: A Comprehensive Guide Deportation can be a frightening prospect, particularly in a city as diverse as New York. Understanding your rights and

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Missing Or Deceased estate?

Navigating Missing or Deceased Estate Issues When a beneficiary is missing, or an estate owner passes away without clear directives, handling the estate can become

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The Need-To-Know: Probate Litigation

The Need-To-Know: Probate Litigation in 2024 As we approach 2024, the landscape of probate litigation in New York continues to evolve. Understanding these changes is

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The Top Secrets of Estate Accountings

The Top Secrets of NY Estate Accountings 2024 As we move into 2024, estate accounting in New York continues evolving, presenting challenges and opportunities. Understanding

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Understanding Estate Planning with Morgan Legal Group in New York City Estate planning is a crucial step for securing your financial future and ensuring your

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Is My Will Legit?

Is My Will Legit? Ensuring Your Will’s Legitimacy in New York Creating a will is a fundamental component of estate planning, but the looming question

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The Mysteries of Probate Revealed

The Mysteries of Probate Revealed in New York The probate process in New York often seems shrouded in mystery, leaving many to navigate its complexities

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What is Probate in 2024?

As the legal landscape continues to evolve, understanding the probate process in New York in 2024 is crucial for effectively managing estate planning and administration.

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Why You Need a Probate Lawyer in Queens Probate can be complex and daunting, especially in the diverse and dynamic borough of Queens, New York.

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Best Estate Planning Before You Pass

One of the fundamental parts of any estate arrangement is abundance conservation. To have the option to give your resources for people in the future, you really want to guarantee that they are appropriately protected meanwhile. While many individuals stress that an unpredictable market climate or terrible venture choice will make them lose a significant part of their resources, as individuals develop more affluent, they likewise become more defenseless to claims that endeavor to gain by their hard-acquired abundance.

Retitling your resources can assist with shielding them from being seized in the occasion you become the subject of a lawful debate. While it may not be imaginable or functional to retitle the entirety of your resources, certain property, like a home or investment property, can be shielded by eliminating your name from freely available report.

Life coverage can assist with limiting domain, gift and annual charges when your resources are moved to your main beneficiaries while giving a single amount of money to your recipients when you pass. Moreover, different types of protection, like property, loss and responsibility, offer assurance against numerous legitimate difficulties. Assuming you’re in a calling that will in general be profoundly presented to obligation and paltry claims, guaranteeing that you’re appropriately covered can be a judicious first line of protection.

Making a restricted risk element is a viable method for isolating your own resources from those of your business or other revenue source, like an investment property. One of the upsides of doing as such is that responsibility for action inside the substance is by and large restricted to the resources of the element.

When you move resources for a permanent trust, the trust turns into the resource proprietor and you presently don’t control how those resources are appropriated. Since the trust claims the resources, banks can’t get to them to fulfill a judgment, regardless of whether you lay down a good foundation for yourself as the recipient.

FAQ

  1. If my spouse dies, do I get his social security and mine?

Yes, according to the surviving spouse law, you’re able to collect all funds from his or her social security onto yours.

2.  What is a pour-over will?

A pour-over Will is a Will written and document stating the actions needed to be done through the trustee which will be transferred to him or her. The truster is someone who’s responsible for many assets to be taken care of or sent to assigned beneficiaries.

3. Who qualifies for medicaid in NY?

Women who are pregnant or those with children over the age of 18, seniors and those with disabilities. Disabilities such as blindness, deafness, etc or physical injury are also eligible for Medicaid.

4. What is elder law?

Elder law handles long term care including future medical care, special needs care for those who are handicapped or mentally disabled and estate planning from ages over 50. This type of law also handles cases with elder abuse as long as there’s evidence of these sort of cases. Elder abuse can come from members of the family and the elder can approach a lawyer to report this sort of behavior to prevent a manipulation of your estate plan.

5. Does transfer on death avoid probate?

The transfer of death only makes the probate process much more difficult having you provide additional details and reason of the transfer. This makes the process longer and if it’s longer, it’ll be more expensive. The only way to avoid the probate is through a trust because everything would be set up or planned ahead, especially the transfer of death.

6.   Are living trusts revocable or irrevocable?

A living trust can be both but with an irrevocable trust, you cannot change anything that’s been documented unless you discuss the changes with all beneficiaries and court.

7. If my spouse dies do I get his social security and mine?

Because of the laws of Estate Planning, there’s something labeled, the surviving spouse clause where if one spouse dies, the surviving spouse gets his or her assets. The only assets not provided would be government funds that the spouse still owes or would actually lose the entire thing because of labeled ownership unless there’s a Will stating rights to owning these finances.

8. Why do I need an elder law attorney?

The only reason you should have an elder law attorney is to have a lawyer to care of cases that are related to future needs leading to promising medical care that can protect yourself and your assets including your estate. An elder law attorney can also protect you from elder abuse that you can report to your lawyer and court.

9. What happens if you die intestate?

Who’s ever married to you or related to you by blood gets your inheritance though the surviving spouse gets it all unless the Will or trust says differently.

10. How long can you receive unemployment in NY?

In the state of NY, you can collect unemployment for 26 weeks but with the pandemic happening, it can go as long as this is drawing out.

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