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Aug 31, 2022

Does the MTA covid death benefit have beneficiaries, and if not, who should inherit? The MTA is paying a pretty generous amount (about $500,000) to the estate of any employee who passed away with or from covid. The requirements seem to be tightening up a bit, but we’ll see what comes of it.

Have your MTA Covid death...


Aug 24, 2022

We often get hired when someone has died, but no one wants to be the executor. Sometimes there was a will with nominated executors who don’t want to serve. Other times there was no will, but none of the next of kin want to do the job. So they hire us as the professional executor.

Being executor is too much work

Being executor is too much work


Aug 17, 2022

We’ll discuss how to sell a loft in probate. This is yet another type of apartment that is unique to New York. We’ve talked about co-ops in the past, which seem mind-boggling to many people (even New Yorkers).

What is an artist-in-residence?

It is too much to cover in depth, so this is a link from Street Easy, a...


Aug 10, 2022

How do you probate a Bitcoin miner’s estate? We’ll cover: what a miner looks like, whether to keep the miner running through probate, and how miners will probably have yet another wallet to figure out.

The Bitcoin mining machine

The word “miner” can apply to the individual who engages in active mining or to the...


Aug 3, 2022

Many of our Solo Ager clients ask if I’ll serve as their successor (not primary) executor. The short answer is yes. We discuss why solo agers ask for successor executors.

Planning to be a future Solo Ager

Planning to be a future Solo Ager

They may not be Solo Agers at the moment, but they are planning for when they will could become a Solo Ager....