Estate Planning Attorneys in Tonawanda, New York

While the future may seem far away, you never know what it can bring. As the recent situation facing the entire world with COVID-19 has shown, it is important to be prepared for events that you have no control over. Rossi & DeMarco, PLLC can help you protect your property for your loved ones by being prepared for the future.

Our attorneys can help ease your mind about what will happen to your property and assets when you pass away and ensure that your property and assets are distributed to those in accordance with your wishes, not how state law will handle it without properly prepared legal documents.

Rossi & DeMarco, PLLC will help navigate the ever-changing legal landscape as it pertains to estate planning and elder law to guarantee that your family will be protected when you are no longer here to protect them on your own. We can also work with your other trusted advisors (CPAs, financial planners or insurance agents) to ensure that all of your needs are being addressed.

Some of the services we provide include the following:

• Wills: Preparation and/or modification of your will (legal document that sets out how you want to distribute your assets after you die).

• Health Care Proxies: Preparation and/or modification of your health care proxy (legal document that sets out how you want your medical decisions made if you no longer have the capacity to do so on your own).

• Powers of Attorney: Preparation and/or modification of your power of attorney (legal document that sets out how you want your personal property and financial decisions made if you no longer have the capacity to do so on your own).

• Trusts: Preparation and/or modification of a trust (legal document that provides another person with control over your property for the benefit of another both while you are alive and after your death). This includes both irrevocable and revocable trusts.

• Life Use Deeds/Life Estate Deeds: Preparation and/or modification of life use deeds/life estate deeds that help protect your home from Medicaid and/or avoid the need for probate after your passing.

• Minor Children: Preparation of documents that will control what happens with your minor children if something should happen to you.

• Tax Avoidance: Evaluate ways to help you better plan your assets to avoid estate taxes upon your death.

• Medicaid: Consider ways to long-term plan with respect to Medicaid and how your assets will be impacted as it pertains to nursing homes, assisted living or memory care.

Losing a loved one is an incredibly emotional time. It is important that your family can spend that time honoring your memory, not battling with each other (or others) over how your assets should be distributed. You have worked hard your whole life and deserve to control where your property goes upon your death.

If you need assistance with drafting a will, trust, power of attorney, health care proxy or other estate planning questions in Tonawanda, New York, or in Amherst or Wheatfield, and throughout Erie County and Niagara County, contact Rossi & DeMarco, PLLC.