By Andrew Denney | May 30, 2018
According to court papers, Robert Durst was the last person to see his wife alive on Jan. 31, 1982, and admitted to getting into a physical altercation with her before she disappeared.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Daniel G. Fish | May 17, 2018
In his Elder Law column, Daniel G. Fish writes: For the client who is considering a transfer to a trust of property that is encumbered with a loan secured by a lien, great care must be exercised at the initial stage to ensure that the property can be successfully transferred and that it can be transferred without triggering the due-on-sale clause.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By C. Raymond Radigan and Lois Bladykas | May 4, 2018
In this Trusts and Estates Law column, C. Raymond Radigan and Lois Bladykas address the question: How do we protect our digital assets now, yet ensure access later by our trusted family member or fiduciary so that they can be marshaled and protected as part of our estate?
By Andrew Denney | April 25, 2018
An Albany County town justice who is facing grand larceny charges for participating in a scheme to steal $4 million from a trust fund that he oversaw has agreed to resign from the bench.
By Christine Simmons | April 11, 2018
Little was arrested in 2012 and charged with advising and helping an American family defraud the IRS by hiding millions of dollars in overseas Swiss bank accounts.
By Ilene Sherwyn Cooper | April 6, 2018
In her Trusts and Estates column, Ilene Sherwyn Cooper writes: Opinions in the Third and Fourth Departments have respectively addressed testamentary capacity and the validity of a release, while surrogate's in the metropolitan area have confronted discovery requests, and the elective share.
By Christine Simmons | April 5, 2018
Jordan Seaman claims that Schulte Roth & Zabel failed to disclose a trustee relationship that created a "personal financial relationship" between a partner at the firm handling a matter with his former spouse.
By MP McQueen | March 13, 2018
The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Miami on behalf of the estate of David Kleiman, a paralyzed IT security expert who died in 2013, may incidentally establish whether Craig Wright is, in fact, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, said to be the inventor of bitcoin.
By Jenna Greene | March 12, 2018
There's nothing like a good, old-fashioned trusts and estate brawl, especially one involving a prominent family, some of New York's top litigators and a fed-up judge.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Raymond Radigan and David R. Schoenhaar | March 9, 2018
In this Trusts and Estates Law column, Raymond Radigan and David R. Schoenhaar focus on the nomination process of a guardian ad litem in the Surrogate's Court.
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