New York Elder Lawyer
Trusted Throughout Brooklyn, Manhattan & New York City
As a whole, elder law is an area that may be wrought with legal complexities and emotionally-charged issues that can make these matters difficult for an individual or family to deal with. It is therefore important to involve a legal professional who can provide you with the guidance and information you need.
At Melnik Law Group, PLLC in New York City, you will receive the full support of a highly respected team of professionals who will work to address your unique goals and concerns. Our team includes highly experienced lawyers, CPAs, and support personnel who will thoroughly analyze your particular elder law case to build a strategy based upon your unique concerns.
Why Hire Our Elder Law Attorneys?
When you work with an elder law attorney at our office in New York City, you will find that our approach goes deeper than simply addressing your immediate concerns. We will review your concerns from varied perspectives to develop an approach that works toward a long-term solution, not just a "quick fix".
Our services are catered to your individual needs and you will receive the one-on-one time and attention you need to help accomplish your goals. At the firm we strive to help turn your objectives into a reality.
Our Brooklyn elder law attorneys can handle inter-related services in all of the following:
We often find that doing so enables us to assist our clients in very tangible ways, reaching further than their surface needs or concerns. Our primary goal is to provide our clients with much-needed peace of mind, regardless of their age or financial situation.
Helpful Tips on Planning for Incapacity
Planning for incapacity, sometimes called competency and capacity designations, is one aspect of elder law that people especially want to avoid. To help make this crucial topic a little easier on you when it comes time for you to start planning, keep this list of common key terms when the time comes.
- Powers of attorney (POA): Giving someone direct control of important decisions in this way may be the best way to avoid delays or complications
- Enduring property control: property protections and control.
- Legal counsel: You might want to start thinking about assigning power to a professional elder law attorney instead of a family member.
- Gifting funds and assets: Sometimes you can help your estate early by planning on gifting certain assets when you become incapacitated.
- Amendments: It will be beneficial to change some of the terms set forth by your power of attorney.
- Unintentional revocation: Read everything before you sign it. This is not just elder law and estate planning advice, but general legal advice that happens to apply to incapacity planning; do not sign anything until your lawyer reviews it with you.
- Mental and physical health: You might want to make separate powers of attorney for healthcare and mental healthcare that trigger depending on what incapacitates you.
- Sooner than later: Incapacity planning must happen before you become incapacitated.
Would you like help creating a competency and capacity designation? Melnik Law Group, PLLC and our New York elder law attorney is here to help.
Qualified Guidance You Can Trust in Elder Law Matters
There are often numerous questions and few answers for anyone dealing with an elder law issue without an experienced lawyer to guide the way. From social security benefits to
medicaid fraud, an elder care lawyer in NYC at our firm can fight on your behalf to ensure that you receive the high-quality care that you deserve. Our legal team also handles
wills and trusts and
pension planning to minimize lose ends and divide your assets exactly as you wish.
At Melnik Law Group, PLLC we concentrate in the following:
We feel it is essential to be prepared for whatever the future may hold and to protect the rights of the elderly across New York State. We provide comprehensive approaches and long term plans that will not only benefit you now but for years to come.
Attorney Melnik has attained many victorious settlements for his clients and has helped countless others with their legal planning issues. Together, our firm has accomplished great things for our clients and for the community, click here to see what they have to say by reading our client testimonials.
Peace of Mind for You & Your Loved Ones
Our lead attorney, Steven Melnik, can provide you with superior legal services and profound insight that you may not find anywhere else. He is one of the most sought after lawyer for elder law issues in the NYC area because of his dedication, compassion, and reputable legal counsel. Attorney Melnik is also a published New York author. His book is titled
Tax Relief and Resolution and it includes helpful information on how you could ultimately pay less to the IRS in taxes. You can find his book available for
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With personalized legal representation, our legal team always takes the time to listen to our clients' concerns and help formulate the best plan of action. Throughout your elder law case, we will also keep you constantly updated with any new developments and inform you of how your objectives are being met. Our primary goal is to provide peace of mind for you so you rest easy and enjoy life.
Don't let the stress and uncertainties of life bring you down. Take legal action today and enlist tried and true legal counsel from Melnik Law Group, where we help plan and protect your future. Our lawyers are based in New York City and represent elder clients throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn and all five boroughs as well as throughout New York State, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.
Call our offices in New York today to schedule a confidential consultation with elder law attorney Steven V. Melnik, who can offer you the information and high-quality representation you need.