Estate Planning & Probate

Good planning can mean the difference between having your wishes followed regarding medical decisions and the distribution of assets after your death, or letting the courts get involved.

Judith Blumeno helps clients in a variety of areas including establishing trusts, drafting wills, powers of attorney, health care directives, advance directives, and probating decedents’ estates.

Judith Blumeno has the knowledge and experience to help you make the important decisions about your estate planning goals. She will help you decide if a traditional will or an increasingly popular alternative, the revocable living trust, is more appropriate for you. Many people are choosing to establish revocable living trusts to hold ownership of their assets during their lifetime, through any kind of disability, and to distribute those assets after death.

When a loved one dies, Judith Blumeno can assist in answering all the questions that arise about the distribution of assets, including whether part or all of the estate must go through probate, how the assets are to be distributed, and many other considerations. She helps make the resolution of the estate run smoothly and efficiently, including distributing assets, liquidating liabilities, paying taxes, attending probate court proceedings and carrying out decedents’ other wishes.

Many clients concerned with end-of-life decisions are choosing to establish Advance Medical Directives or Living Wills. These are legal documents that let your doctors, family and others know your wishes regarding medical care, especially what kinds of treatments, surgeries and efforts at resuscitation you want at the end of your life. An Advance Directive or Living Will can also provide direction about organ donation and other issues.

Call Judith Blumeno to discuss your case.