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ANDREW J. CEVASCO became a partner of the firm of Archer & Greiner, P.C., when that firm merged with the firm of Herten, Burstein, Sheridan, Cevasco, Bottinelli, Litt & Harz, L.L.C. Mr. Cevasco is an experienced and successful personal and business advisor to the firm's clients. He provides a broad range of services including business planning, estate planning and estate administration matters. A large part of his practice involves chancery and particularly estate litigation involving a myraid of issues including will contest, administration disputes, construction of wills and trusts, requests for instructions, accountings and guardianships. He has also been appointed by the court to serve in various capacities, including court appointed attorney, guardian ad litem and mediator for various probate matters. He currently serves on the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Character and as a Trustee of the Bergen County Bar Association. He also served for four years on the District of Ethics Committee for Bergen County pursuant to appointment by the New Jersey Supreme Court. Mr. Cevasco is admitted to practice law in New Jersey, as well as before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. He received his J.D. and LL.M. degrees, in taxation, from New York University School of Law and was awarded a B.S. degree, summa cum laude, from Fordham University. ELGA A. GOODMAN is the principal of EA Goodman Law LLC, where she concentrates her practice on business and personal taxation issues, including domestic and international estate planning, the administration of trusts and estates, and closely-held business planning. She advises clients on estate planning techniques aimed at ensuring that assets pass to the intended beneficiaries, while minimizing the state and federal tax burdens. Ms. Goodman has established charitable trusts and foundations, planned and implemented gifting programs, and has drafted wills, trusts, powers of attorney, living wills and pre-nuptial agreements. She also counsels clients about planning for incapacity, and assists clients with planning for possible long-term care needs. Ms. Goodman is involved in many aspects of trust and estate administration, as well as probate litigation. Additionally, she counsels closely-held corporations, including high-tech companies and other businesses on a variety of issues including tax strategies, succession planning, mergers and acquisitions, structuring of joint ventures, partnerships, limited liability companies and other strategic alliances. Ms. Goodman earned her B.A. degree from Drew University; her J.D. degree, summa cum laude, from Seton Hall University; and her LL.M. degree from the New York University School of Law. She is a member of the New Jersey State and American bar associations. MYRNA L. WIGOD is a partner with McCarter & English. She focuses her practice in the often-related areas of family law and trusts and estates litigation. During almost 30 years of experience, Ms. Wigod has established a practice dedicated to assisting clients in obtaining fair and equitable results in both of these areas. She has represented many satisfied clients in contentious, disputed or litigated trusts and estates matters. Ms. Wigod's clients include individual executors, trustees and beneficiaries; charitable and other non-profit organizations; and banks, financial institutions and corporate fiduciaries. She assists her clients in achieving positive results in the areas of will contests and similar disputed matters regarding beneficiary designations, asset transfers and property dispositions, including disputes over capacity, undue influence, fraud and forgery; fiduciary accountability, including contested accounting actions and proceedings for the removal or sanctioning of executors, trustees, agents under powers of attorney and other fiduciaries; interpretation of trusts, wills and other testamentary instruments; and guardianship of incapacitated persons or minors. Ms. Wigod has successfully resolved these types of matters through alternative dispute resolution, as well as through litigation. She is a member of the American Bar Association (sections of Litigation, Family Law and Real Property, Probate and Trust Law) and the New Jersey State Bar Association (sections of Civil Litigation, Family Law and Real Property, Probate and Trust Law). Ms. Wigod is admitted to practice in the State of New Jersey, as well as before the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey and Eastern and Southern districts of New York. She earned her B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, her B.S. degree from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and her J.D. degree from Boston University School of Law.
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