• Grimaldi & Yeung LLP alerts you to the following updates:
    NEW YORK STATE BUDGET NEWS:
    1. Repeal of the Medicaid Expanded Estate Recovery Law and
    2. Spousal Refusal Remains a Planning Option for New York Couples Who Seek Medicaid

    TAX RELIEF NEWS:
    The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010, increased the lifetime gift tax (and the estate tax and generation-skipping transfer tax) exemption to $5,120,000 in 2012. Married couples can make tax-free gifts of up to $10, 240,000 in 2012.

    For the entire version of these updates, kindly refer to our Resources page.
  • Congratulations to Judith D. Grimaldi & Pauline Yeung-Ha named as New York’s Women Leaders in the Law 2012! Published in New York Magazine’s Special Double Issue, March 12–19, 2012.
  • Judith D. Grimaldi and Joanne Seminara were recently featured with Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis in The Staten Island Advance, March 10, 2012 edition, in an article entitled: Caregivers See Ruin Where Gov. Sees Savings. Ms. Grimaldi and Ms. Seminara are part of a statewide lobbying effort to protect “spousal refusal rights” and maintain Medicaid eligibility for seniors.

    Please visit Ms. Grimaldi’s home page to view full article.

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for your future.

During the course of our lives most of us will face serious legal, financial and family challenges, including:

  • Enjoying our financial resources while we can.
  • Protecting what we worked for so our family and heirs will benefit.
  • Making our own decisions about medical care and home care choices.
  • Obtaining a fair share of government benefits, such as Medicaid.
  • Sorting out the estate of a deceased family member and minimizing estate taxes.

Dealing with these challenges is never simple — and is often stressful. How much easier would it be if you could be sure your preferences would be honored? Things can go much more smoothly with advanced estate and tax planning — and the help of a seasoned lawyers located in New York City. We are here to meet your needs by offering comprehensive estate and tax planning, trusts to protect assets, wills to carry out your wishes, help with Medicaid, resources in caregiving and elder law and effective estate administration.

When facing complex issues like these, it is important to know that the experienced attorneys understand the human side of your important needs. Browse our site; it will give you a sense of who we are and how we can help you.

Call us at 718.238.6960 today. Meet us in our Brooklyn and Manhattan offices, and we will help you face these difficult legal challenges head-on and tilt the scales in your favor. We serve Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx. We also speak Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin & Fuzhounese), Russian and Italian.

Judith D. “Judie” Grimaldi, a charter member of the Academy of Special Needs Planners, speaks out about the planning needs of disabled adults at a meeting for Special Needs Planners in San Diego.

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Pauline Yeung-Ha as guest on Chung Wah Chinese Broadcasting Co. (CWCB) radio (Cantonese audio—part 1)