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JEFFREY A. ASHER is a partner in the law firm of Eaton & Van Winkle LLP. He concentrates primarily in the areas of estate planning, asset protection, estates and trusts administration, elder law, and Medicaid planning. Using various estate planning techniques, Mr. Asher implements for his clients an overall estate plan designed to pass as much wealth as possible to their loved ones, with the most minimum exposure to estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes. He has represented large estates and charitable-minded estates, as well as executors, trustees, and other fiduciaries in connection with their probate, tax, accounting and other obligations. Mr. Asher counsels his clients in connection with their long-term healthcare decisions, disability protections, and need for advanced medical directives. He also represents individuals and assists them in obtaining Medicare and Medicaid benefits to pay for long-term home care and nursing home care. Mr. Asher is a frequent lecturer for various financial institutions, civic groups and community organizations, and is often presented by the New York State Bar Association as a community educator on various estate planning topics. Mr. Asher also is a legal commentator on trusts and estates, and elder law matters for TruTV, Court TV, CNN Headline News and The CBS Early Show. He is a frequent speaker and contributor to National Business Institute. In addition, he is approved as a continuing education credit provider by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. and the Connecticut Department of Insurance. Mr. Asher is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut; is a peer-elected member of the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils, Estate Planning Council of New York City; is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys; and is a member of the Trusts and Estates Section and Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and the Connecticut Bar Association. He is a graduate of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and earned his J.D. degree from Touro Law School in Huntington, New York. AVI Z. KESTENBAUM is a partner with the Long Island, New York firm of Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP, where he is co-chair of the Trusts & Estates Department, and practices in the areas of domestic and international trusts and estates, taxation, asset preservation, business planning, charitable planning, and tax-exempt organizations. He is also an adjunct tax professor at Hofstra University School of Law and the Baruch College MBA Program teaching courses in Federal Income Taxes, Gift and Estate Taxes and State and Local Taxes. Selected to Class of 2011 40 Under 40 in Long Island Business News' and will be featured in the upcoming New York Times Super Lawyers Rising Stars. Mr. Kestenbaum has been quoted in Forbes, Investor's Business Daily, and other national news publications, and has written many articles in leading national estate planning and tax journals, including, but not limited to: "The Beneficiary Defective Inheritor's Trust: Is It Really Defective?"- Steve Leimberg's LISI Estate Planning Newsletter #1730 (Dec. 14, 2010); "A Practitioner's Risk Assessment Checklist" -Steve Leimberg's LISI Estate Planning Newsletter #1636 (May 5, 2010); "Risk Assessment", Trusts and Estates, April 2010; "It's Personal," Trusts and Estates, April 2009; "True Counselors," The New York Law Journal, Special Trusts and Estates Section, January 2009; "Numerous Pension Act Changes Affect Charitable and Estate Planning," Practical Tax Strategies, April 2007; "Know the Differences: A Guide to Charitable Contribution Deductions," Trusts and Estates, May 2006; "The New Age of Corporate Governance for Nonprofit Organizations," Journal of Taxation of Exempts, August 2005; "Use Disclaimers to Add Flexibility and Hindsight to Estate Plans," Practical Tax Strategies, June 2005; "Proposed Revisions to the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act," Estate Planning Journal, February 2005; and "Duties and Liabilities of Nonprofit Directors and Officers," Estate Planning Journal, May 2004. Several additional articles will be published soon in leading national tax and estate planning journals. He has lectured for many prestigious professional organizations, including, but not limited to: the Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute; Ed Slott's Master Elite Program; the American Bar Association; the Estate Planning Council of New York; and the New York State CPA Society, Annual Estate Planning Conference; and for and to many nonprofit institutions on a variety of topics relating to domestic and international tax, estate and charitable planning, asset preservation, tax-exempt organizations, and special needs planning. He earned his B.S. degree, summa cum laude, from Touro College; his J.D. degree from Brooklyn Law School; and his LL.M. degree in taxation from the University of Miami School of Law. He received academic scholarships at each of these universities. LORRAINE PACELEO is an attorney in the New York law firm of Greenfield Stein & Senior, LLP, where she concentrates her practice in the areas of administration, accounting and tax preparation for estate and trust fiduciaries. She is a certified public accountant and holds a membership in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Ms. Paceleo earned her B.S. degree from Adelphi University and her J.D. degree from St. John's University, School of Law. She currently is a member of the Tax Law Committee and the Trusts and Estates Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association and she is a member of the Trusts and Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association. MARC SELDEN is the principal founder of Eagle & Selden, P.C., where his main areas of practice are estate planning, asset protection and business succession planning. He earned his B.A. degree, cum laude, from the State University of New York at Albany; his J.D. degree from Syracuse University Law School; and has a laureate at the Southern California Institute. Mr. Selden is an instructor for National Business Institute and Southern California Institute, and is a charter member of the WealthCounsel's Speakers Bureau. He is a contributing author to WealthCounsel Estate Planning Strategies: Collective Wisdom, Proven Techniques published by Wealth Builders Press, LLC (2009). Mr. Selden is a member of the New York State Bar Association (Trusts and Estate Section); Estate Planning Council of New York City, Inc.; and a member of WealthCounsel. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Eastern districts of New York.
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