I was prepared to write a regular estate planning article tied into Independence Day with July Fourth and fireworks references – fitting...

“OK, Mr. Lewis, to recap, we have three investment accounts, the checking account, the Whole Life Insurance plan, your IRA and the home.”...

I was performing a little Medicaid research one day in the 2010s. On my computer screen was a copy of New York’s Medicaid Reference...

Before James Bond embarked on a globetrotting mission to save the world from S.P.E.C.T.R.E., he stopped in to see Q, British Secret...

At age 90, Daniel Kahneman – maybe the most famous modern intellectual on the subject of decision making – decided to end his life....

Nursing home owners have had enough – and you should take notice. For decades, elder care attorneys and nursing home business offices...

Here is my well-worn phrase of the day: “It is not what you say, but how you say it.” Family conversations infused with humanity and...

When a client contacts our office and mentions needing a guardianship for a loved one, two numbers begin to swirl in my head: 81 and 17A....

Sometimes change comes marching down Main Street with a brass band, jugglers and a costumed mouse. Other times it clings to the bottom of...

What are your great moments? Is it a graduation? The birth of a child? Completing the Lake Placid IronMan? A killer Karaoke performance...

I was annoyed. The Viennese table was surrounded and there was no way I was going to break through that fortress of big-bodied pastry...

Here is my Valentine’s Day card idea: “Love is raising and lowering the thermostat seven times in 10 minutes even though the thermostat...

Have you ever been told to change? Probably. I know I have. The people closest to you, at one point in time, may have found some of your...

Is your anxiety based on a mistake or behavior? Many mistakes can be dissected, examined, and resolved to alleviate the anxiety.   For...

For me, the holidays redefine and reanimate the important people in my life. I think about all of the loved ones who made life more...

Right around Labor Day 1990, my grandmother made an announcement. She spoke softly to all of us seated with her at the Riverdale Diner....

I could rhapsodize for days on the Wills I have seen. Dr. Seuss rhymes would fly in every direction. Big Wills. Small Wills. Little...

Estate planning has a lot in common with travel planning. For many, a successful vacation is achieved through full itineraries –...

In my younger days, I made funny faces when I was photographed at family functions. It was nothing serious – a phase. I was 8, not 45 or...

College tours have not changed much over the decades. Walk around the campus for an hour and a half, passing 37 dining halls – but not...