Practice Overview

Robert A. Schreiber, P.C. provides personalized estate, business, retirement, and long-term care planning for individuals, families, and small business owners, at all stages in their lives, from college students to seniors in need of in-home care or nursing home admission.

Estate Planning for individuals and families, including the preparation of Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Health Care Proxies, Homestead Declarations, Living Wills, Life Estates, Pre-Nuptial Agreements, Domestic Partnership Agreements, Irrevocable Insurance Trusts, Section 529 Education Savings Accounts, and Special Needs Trusts; establishing an appropriate estate plan after a divorce or death of a family member, providing assistance and advice in establishing lifetime gifting programs to family members and charities, preparation of Estate and Gift Tax Returns, assistance in purchasing appropriate life insurance, disability, and long-term care policies, and planning to minimize the liability for estate taxes, gift taxes, and capital gains taxes.

Business Planning for small business owners, including the formation of Corporations, Partnerships, Family Limited Partnerships, Limited Liability Corporations, Trusts, and Buy-Sell and Partnership Agreements, assistance in planning to pass on your business to your children, grandchildren or business partners, and providing the funds to pay for estate taxes with an Irrevocable Insurance Trust or Buy-Sell Agreement funded with life insurance.

Retirement Planning for individuals and families, providing advice for withdrawing funds in your IRA, 401-k, and other retirement plans, assistance in obtaining social security, medicare benefits, and other retirement benefits, planning to buy a vacation or retirement home, representation in selling your family home, reviewing contracts for senior housing and assisted living facilities, and when appropriate, assistance in establishing a new legal residence in another State.

Elder Law and Long Term Care Planning for Seniors and their families, providing assistance in purchasing the appropriate long term care policy, obtaining a reverse mortgage, finding appropriate in-home care, adult day care, respite care, senior housing, assisted living facility and nursing home, reviewing contracts and obtaining funding for these services and facilities, obtaining medicare and medicaid benefits to pay for rehabilitation and nursing home costs, preserving assets for your spouse, children, and grandchildren, and making referrals to qualified social workers, geriatric case managers, and other elder law professionals.

Estate and Trust Administration Probate of Wills, administration of Estates and Trusts, representation in Will Contests and Trust Reformations, arbitration of family disputes, assistance in obtaining life insurance proceeds, retirement, medical, and social security benefits, planning to provide for the financial security for the surviving spouse and children, postmortem planning to minimize liability for estate taxes, preparation of Estate and Gift Tax Returns, probate and trust accounts, and estate planning for the surviving spouse and children.