Kiley, Kiley & Kiley, PLLC

Donald T. Kiley, Jr. and Kevin J. Kiley gave a seminar on estate and elder law planning before a group people at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Church, Bayside, New York. The event was sponsored by the Brooklyn/Queens Diocese. Topics of discussion included the fundamentals of preparing a basic estate plan including a Will and Health Care Proxy with discussion of the implication of the recent federal HIPAA legislation and its impact on medicaid planning. Also discussed were the most recent changes to the medicaid laws relating to gifts and the transfer of assets; a discussion of shelter credit and bypass trusts to mitigate federal and state estate tax liability and tools to address the preservation of real property and other assets, including life estates and irrevocable trusts.