Trusts & Estates
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The attorneys in the Trusts and Estates Practice Area counsel clients on all aspects of estate and retirement planning, including federal and state tax issues, business succession strategies, deferred compensation arrangements, and wealth transfers. Our clients include individuals, families, fiduciaries, and private businesses, many with complex legal issues concerning retirement planning, wealth transfers, estate administration, fiduciary litigation and taxation issues.
There are a broad selection of investment, tax, and trust vehicles for creating, managing, preserving, and transferring assets. Our approach is to meet with our clients to determine their needs and then to develop an approach that best serves those needs. We also consult with our clients' many other financial professionals from the fields of accounting, insurance, and investing.
Our attorneys also counsel executors, trustees, dispossessed heirs, corporate fiduciaries, banks and attorneys in will contests, commission disputes, fiduciary removal and reinstatement and accounting actions.
Our services include the following areas:
- Wills and Trusts
- Powers of Attorney
- Medical Powers of Attorney
- Estate and Trust Administration
- Estate, Fiduciary and Probate Litigation
- Guardianships
- Conservatorships
- Retirement Asset Planning
- Revocable Living Trusts
- Life Insurance Trusts
- Family Limited Partnerships
- Educational Trusts
- Bypass Trusts
- Business Succession Planning
- Special Needs Trusts
- Post Mortem Planning and Trust Reformation
- Counsel to dispossessed heirs, executors, corporate fiduciaries, banks and attorneys in will contests, commission disputes, fiduciary removal and reinstatement and accounting actions.
November 2024
Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C. Ranked by Best Law Firms® in 2025
August 2024
21 Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C. Attorneys Recognized as 2025 Best Lawyers® Award Recipients
November 2023
Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C. Ranked by Best Law Firms® in 2024
August 2023
Twenty-Two GH&C Attorneys Recognized in the 2024 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America®
August 2022
24 Lawyers from Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C. Were Recognized in the 2023 Edition of the Best Lawyers in America®
November 2021
Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C. Ranked in U.S. News & World Report - "Best Lawyers," 2022 Best Law Firm Rankings
August 2021
24 Lawyers from Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P. C. Were Recognized in the 2022 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America®
November 2020
Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C. Ranked in U.S. News & World Report - "Best Lawyers," 2021 Best Law Firm Rankings
November 2019
Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C. Ranked in U.S. News & World Report - "Best Lawyers," 2020 Best Law Firm Rankings
August 15, 2019
23 Attorneys from Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla Named to 2020 Best Lawyers® List
November 2018
Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C. Ranked in U.S. News & World Report - "Best Lawyers," 2019 Best Law Firm Rankings
August 2018
Five Attorneys from Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla Named 2019 Best Lawyers® "Lawyer of the Year" in Woodbridge Area
August 2018
22 Attorneys from Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla Named to 2019 Best Lawyers® List
March 2018
2018 Trusts & Estates Law Update
August 16, 2017
22 Attorneys from Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla Named to 2018 Best Lawyers® List
June 21, 2017
Adult Disability Benefits
May 2017
Walking Through Medicaid and the New Jersey Division of Developmental Disability Support for Your Special Needs Child
January 2017
People with Disabilities Can Now Create Their Own Special Needs Trust
December 2016
Benefits of a Guardianship
December 2016
Benefits of a Guardianship
November 2, 2016
Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C. Ranked In U.S. News & World Report - Best Lawyers, 2017 "Best Law Firms" Rankings
October 2016
Fall 2016 Trusts & Estates Law Update
November 2, 2015
Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C. Ranked In U.S. News & World Report - Best Lawyers, 2016 "Best Law Firms" Rankings
January 2015
Trusts & Estates Law Update
November 3, 2014
GH&C Ranked in 2015 "Best Law Firms"
January 27, 2014
2014 Trusts and Estates News Update
August 19, 2013
Twenty One Lawyers From Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla Selected For Inclusion In Best Lawyers in America 2014 List
January 23, 2013
Trusts & Estates Practice Area Publishes Annual Newsletter
January 2, 2013
Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla Names Tara Phelan Carver Shareholder