by Torzewski & McInerney, LLC | Jun 28, 2019 | Firm News
Estate planning can be a sensitive subject, no matter how old the person might be. In fact, almost half of Americans 55 or older have not put any official plan in writing. For those who have actually taken the time to put together a will, many have locked it away and...
by Torzewski & McInerney, LLC | Jun 27, 2019 | Estate Planning
Protecting digital assets is something this column has addressed in previous posts. Making sure digital assets are protected matters. Making sure that loved ones have the right to access digital assets also matters. When estate planning, New Jersey residents would be...
by Torzewski & McInerney, LLC | Jun 24, 2019 | Estate Litigation
When a person dies, his or her estate typically passes to his or her spouse, unless that individual is unmarried, widowed or leaves specific instructions stating that assets should go elsewhere. When a spouse is left out of a will, he or she can either accept it or,...
by Torzewski & McInerney, LLC | Jun 19, 2019 | Estate Litigation
There are those in New Jersey who take the time to put together estate plans in order to ensure that they, their loved ones and their assets are protected, should anything happen to them. While doing this is something that is strongly advised, if the wording in estate...
by Torzewski & McInerney, LLC | Jun 13, 2019 | Estate Litigation
Some New Jersey residents, in an effort to prevent their beneficiaries from having to go through a long, drawn-out probate process, choose to create transfer-on-death beneficiary deeds. Under the right circumstances, and if everything is done just so, this can work,...