Estate Planning

New York and New Jersey Estate Planning Lawyer

The Kridel Law Group counsels clients on all aspects of estate planning, including the drafting of wills, trusts, living wills and powers of attorney.

When you look inside to the heart of an estate plan, you will find complex financial interests that need to be considered and protected. Our attorneys will work closely with your financial advisors, accountants, and insurance representatives to create an estate plan that both protects your assets while you are living, and also eliminates or minimizes estate taxes and probate costs when you die. We also provide business-succession planning services, which is essentially estate planning for clients who own family businesses.

Before founding The Kridel Law Group, James Kridel was tax and estate planning partner for a large law firm, giving him a wide range of experience with every kind of estate planning tool, including:

  • Family limited partnerships
  • Irrevocable living trusts
  • Spendthrift trusts
  • Charitable remainder trusts
  • Irrevocable life insurance trusts

Our experience in bankruptcy law makes us uniquely qualified to protect your interests and the interests of your heirs from creditors in the event of a future bankruptcy. Our experience in divorce law enables us to keep separate property from becoming marital property in the event of a future divorce.

Probate and Estate Administration

Our attorneys have extensive experience representing administrators and executors of wills. We also represent heirs and beneficiaries in estate litigation involving wills, trusts, guardianships, and other probate matters.

If you need expert assistance with a will, trust or power of attorney in New Jersey or New York, contact a estate planning lawyer at The Kridel Law Group.

Our estate planning lawyers serve clients in New Jersey and New York, including Clifton, Paterson, Passaic, Totowa, Wayne, Little Falls, Hackensack, Paramus, Newark, Montclair, Nutley, Morristown, New York City, Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and the counties of Bergen, Morris, Essex, and Passaic.