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Trusts and Estates

DeGraff Foy offers a full range of estate planning and administration services to individuals, families and businesses. These include the preparation of wills and trusts, the administration of estates, and representation in connection with powers of attorney, living wills, health care proxies, Medicaid planning, and tax procedures relating to trusts and estates. The firm's attorneys are skilled at developing estate plans specifically tailored to meet the personal and business concerns of our clients while reducing exposure to federal and state income and transfer taxes.

The firm treats estate planning as an active lifetime process. Thus, in addition to the services detailed above, the firm's attorneys are actively involved in developing lifetime gifting and charitable gifting strategies, as well as retirement planning.

The firm appears regularly in Surrogate's Court throughout New York State. In addition to its general administration services, the firm has developed particular expertise in the prosecution and defense of will contests.

The estate and business planning practices combine their expertise to advise business clients with respect to business succession issues. We are active in advising on the choice of business entity, as well as the actual creation of entities such as corporations, general and limited partnerships, limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships. The firm's attorneys also negotiate and prepare buy-sell agreements for its clients to ensure the transition of control of family and closely held businesses.