Pennsylvania & New Jersey Estate Lawyers

Designing and implementing a trust and estate plan to preserve, protect, and transfer assets is most effective when completed before a crisis occurs. The crisis, however, sometimes arrives without warning, demanding immediate responses to complex legal, tax, business, and health care decisions. Inadequate preparation for life transitions and delayed response often lead to increased costs and loss of control over important personal and financial choices. An experienced Stark & Stark New Jersey or Pennsylvania estate lawyer can help you prepare for the unexpected.

Wealth Preservation & Protection for NJ & PA Clients

estate attorneys in nj estate lawyer in new jersey estate attorney in nj estate attorney njSince each client’s concerns are unique, we create trust and estate plans to give our clients the comfort of knowing that their loved ones will be prepared to respond decisively when the need arises. That level of comfort exists not just because of our technical ability, but also because of our excellent listening skills. Working closely with our clients, we get to know you, your family, and your trusted advisors. A commitment to that process allows us to better understand each client’s goals and objectives, to identify potential hazards and to develop creative estate planning solutions.

Wealth preservation and protection require an appreciation of the current and future needs of our clients and of those who depend on them. Multi-generational planning requires cutting-edge legal and tax planning techniques, and an appreciation of the human dynamics involved in family relationships. Our clients rely on us to help them make prudent business, financial and personal decisions, and we take that responsibility seriously.

Trust & Estate Administration

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In addition, strict deadlines, limited marketability of assets and volatile financial markets require beneficiaries to be proactive in protecting their interests. Beneficiaries who delay in asserting their rights could experience irreparable financial harm through missed opportunities, increased tax and other costs and changing economic conditions. We also assist beneficiaries to protect their interest in an estate.

Since each trust and estate is unique, we work closely with our clients to evaluate the various relevant legal, financial, tax and business issues, and to understand the clients’ concerns, needs and expectations. Our New Jersey and Pennsylvania estate planning clients rely on us to help them make prudent decisions for meeting their legal, financial and ethical obligations.

Dispute Resolution

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Our litigation team is always ready to enforce a beneficiary’s right to receive his or her full distributive share, as well as the right to expect that fiduciaries will discharge their duties faithfully, promptly, competently and without bias. We are equally prepared to defend a fiduciary from claims. In administrative forums, we fight to minimize estate and gift tax liability and to secure needed public benefits.

Contact A Stark & Stark Estate Lawyer In PA or NJ

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Stark & Stark clients receive the benefits found in a “boutique” firm that provides only trusts and estates services, along with the combined experience of many business, tax, real estate, family law and litigation lawyers who bring to the creative problem-solving process an extraordinary depth of experience and level of sophistication.

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Multiple locations to better serve your needs—

Hamilton, NJ

100 American Metro Boulevard
Hamilton, NJ 08619
Phone: 609.896.9060
Secondary phone: 800.535.3425
Fax: 609.896.0629
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Marlton, NJ

40 Lake Center, 401 NJ-73, Suite 130
Marlton, NJ 08053
Phone: 856.874.4443
Secondary phone: 888.241.7424
Fax: 856.874.0133
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Yardley, PA

777 Township Line Road, Suite 120
Yardley, PA 19067
Phone: 267.907.9600
Fax: 267.907.9659
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New York, NY

5 Pennsylvania Plaza 23rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 800.535.3425
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Philadelphia, PA

The Bellevue 200 S Broad St #600
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone: 267.907.9600
Secondary phone: 800.535.3425
Fax: 215.564.6245
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Bridgeton, NJ

78 W Broad St
Bridgeton, NJ 08302
Phone: 856.874.4443
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