Wills, Trusts, and Estate Planning

New Jersey Estate Planning Lawyers

If you have established a successful family-run business, you want to use every means at your disposal to ensure that the business and business assets transfer to successive generations. If you've built significant wealth, you want to protect your assets during your life and minimize the loss of value upon transfer to your children or other heirs. You need sound estate planning counsel. Contact us to schedule a consultation.

At the law firm of Witman Stadtmauer, P.A., in Florham Park, New Jersey, our attorneys provide sophisticated estate planning services in conjunction with our business law practice. We represent estate planning clients throughout the New Jersey and New York metropolitan area, including Morris, Essex, Bergen, Hudson, Monmouth, Middlesex, Union, and Ocean counties.

Our estate planning attorneys advise clients regarding the following matters:

  • Business succession planning, including shareholder agreements, family partnerships, limited liability companies, and business reorganization
  • Simple and complex wills, trusts, and related estate planning documents
  • Revocable and irrevocable trusts and wills
  • Charitable contributions
  • Durable Powers of Attorney, advance directives
  • Premarital Agreements
  • Estate Planning Services

At Witman Stadtmauer, P.A., we provide legal counsel in all estate planning matters. We review and draft all documents necessary to implement a well-designed estate plan, including:

  • Wills
  • Living wills
  • Revocable trusts
  • Irrevocable trusts
  • Powers of Attorney
  • Advance medical directives

We apply our extensive knowledge of tax laws and regulations to our estate planning practice, helping ensure that assets transfer with minimal estate and inheritance tax burdens. We will work closely with your accountant, insurance agent and/or financial advisor to accomplish your goals. Contact us to schedule a meeting to discuss your estate planning needs.

New Jersey Elder Law Attorneys

Our attorneys handle a range of issues for a specific type of client-elderly individuals who have specialized legal needs related to a medical illness or disability. Long term health care can have a devastating effect on family finances. Many families in New York and New Jersey fail to realize that the law lets them arrange their finances so that they don't have to spend all of their money on long-term health care. We handle all aspects of planning for older and disabled persons, including preparing for catastrophic illness and dealing with elder law issues.

Our elder law practice includes the following:

  • Asset protection planning
  • Conservatorships and guardianships
  • Health and life insurance planning
  • Medicaid planning, Medicaid eligibility, Medicaid applications and appeals
  • Long-term health care planning

Contact the elder law attorneys at Witman Stadtmauer, P.A. to schedule a confidential consultation. You are welcome to submit basic information to request a case evaluation.

Witman Stadtmauer, P.A. is a Florham Park, New Jersey law firm that represents clients throughout the New York Metropolitan area including Morris County, Bergen County, Essex County, Hudson County, Middlesex County, Monmouth County, Ocean County and Union County, in communities including Florham Park, Elizabeth, Morristown, Newark, Short Hills, Springfield, Livingston, Parsippany, and New York City. The firm's corporate, trusts and estates practice reaches clients in New Jersey, New York, and Florida. Witman Stadtmauer, P.A.'s ERISA/pension/401(k) practice reaches clients throughout the United States.