Thomas J. Clarke Estate Planning - Wills - Trusts - Law Firm | 30 Linden Place, Red Bank New Jersey, 07701 | (732) 530-3888
Benefits of an Estate Planning Lawyer
Thomas J. Clarke is an Estate Planning Attorney in New Jersey who has dedicated his practice to protecting the wealth of his clients, from investment financial planning to organizing your business and personal finances. Focusing on Wills and Trusts, he enables his clients to make informed decisions regarding their assets. As an Estate Planning Lawyer, however, his work in estate planning extends beyond creating a basic will or trust. His extensive knowledge of New Jersey estate law enables comprehensive estate planning, including probate, gift taxes, inheritance taxes, dynasty trusts, and investment planning.
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Thomas J. Clarke's specialties in estate law include comprehensive estate planning, elder law, and estate taxes. He has extensive experience in probate court and working with probate court records and the probate code in New Jersey. As an estate planning lawyer, he prepares last will and testaments, living wills, and power of attorneys. His estate law practice extends to more complex work with assets and finances, such as trust planning, asset protection planning, inheritance rights, special needs trusts, as well as IRA and 401(K) planning.
In New Jersey today, regardless of financial situation, everyone should have a will, trust, power of attorney, and living will . An estate planning lawyer can arrange for the transfer of property and assets to heirs or other beneficiaries, in order to provide the family, loved ones, or anonymous miscellaneous beneficiaries, with legal rights to the property after the individual has passed away. Don't delay in seeking the guidance of a skilled Estate Planning Lawyer . Thomas J. Clarke has the knowledge and estate planning resources to answer your questions and help you today.
As an estate planner, Thomas J. Clarke can also help you effectively organize your personal records , such as checkings and savings accounts, brokerage accounts, retirement plans, and insurance policies. He also provides his services as an estate planner to businesses, organizing their business records, such as partnership interests, business interests, bank accounts, and insurance policies. If you need the advice of a New Jersey estate planner, contact the estate planning law firm of Thomas J. Clarke today.
New Jersey Estate Law Legal Help
The Need for an Updated Will - Trust - Power of Attorney
As an experienced estate planning lawyer in New Jersey today, Thomas J. Clarke recommends that all his clients update their wills, power of attorney, and trusts, so that they can be certain that the documents accurately reflect their current assets, reap the benefits of the current estate tax codes, and meet current witnessing criteria to withstand contesting a w...
Understanding New Jersey Probate
If you are looking into wills, trusts, and the like, you will hear the term probate used and may not know exactly what it means. It is actually quite simple. Probate refers to the legal process of settling the estate of a deceased person, and, more specifically, resolving any and all claims regarding the distribution of the property of the deceased. In states tha...
Who Needs a Will
Quite simply, every adult in our society today should have a will. Without a will, should something unfortunate befall you, the government will become involved in the distribution of your property and could take up to half of your assets. Furthermore, wills can provide for the guardianship of children and the well-being of your spouse. Despite the many obvious benefits of having a will...
Estate Law Resources
- Overview of Estate Planning
- Estate Law
- Probate Court
- Estate Tax
- Last Will and Testament
- Living Will
- Power of Attorney
- Trust Planning
- Asset Protection Planning
- Inheritence Rights
- Special Needs Trusts
- IRA and 401k Planning
- Probate Court Records
- Elder Law
Wills and Trusts Resources
- Administrator
- Caveat
- Codicil
- Contested Will
- Creating a Will
- Destroying a Will
- Error with a Will
- Estate Planning Tax
- Estate Planning Transfer
- Executor
- Executor Lawyer
- Guardian
- Holographic Will
- Intestacy and Property
- Letters Testamentary
- Limits to Probate
- No Wills and Minors
- Personal Belongings
- Power of Attorney
- Probate
- Problems with Intestacy
- Sound Mind
- Special Needs Trust
- Specific Power of Attorney
- Types of Powers of Attorney
- Who Needs a Will
- Who Needs a Will
- Trusts
- Special Needs Trust
- Sound Mind
- Probate
- Types of Powers of Attorney
- Specific Power of Attorney
- Power of Attorney
- Personal Belongings
- No Wills and Minors
- Living Will
- Limits to Probate
- Letters Testamentary
- Intestacy and Property
- Problems with Intestacy
- Holographic Will
- Guardian
- Executor Lawyer
- Executor
- Estate Planning Transfer
- Estate Planning Tax
- Error with a Will
- Destroying a Will
- Creating a Will
- Contested Will
- Codicil
- Caveat
- Administrator
Tips from an Estate Planning Lawyer
- Glossary of Estate Law Terms
- Checklist for Estate Planning
- Estate Planning Answers
- United States Code
- Estate Planning Laws
- Checklist for Will Creation
- Trust Creation Checklist
- Purpose of an Estate Planner
- New Jersey Law and Statutes
- Estate Planning Resources
Estate Law in the News
- ESTATE PLANNING column: How to go about amending a will (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
- Hap LeCrone: Proper estate planning can help minimize family feuds over assets (Waco Tribune-Herald)
- Update: N.C. alters health-care document (Winston-Salem Journal)
- Singles: You need financial planning, too (The Meridian Star)
- Real estate and estate planning (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)