Legal Insights: Expert Resources from The Law Office of Barry E. Janay

Building a life with someone in your 50s or 60s can be an exciting new chapter.

If you love someone with a disability, one of the kindest things you can do is

Watching an older parent or relative’s savings decline can be unsettling. A lifetime of careful saving

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An inheritance or a serious medical diagnosis can change a family’s financial outlook overnight. Both can

An older relative’s shrinking savings can raise hard questions. Are care and medical costs consuming more

When a loved one dies, families have enough to manage without feeling pressured to pay bills

You do not have to be wealthy for estate planning to matter. If you own a

Your 50s can bring competing responsibilities: helping aging parents, supporting children as they enter adulthood, and

Caring for an aging parent raises hard questions: who decides, who pays, and what to do

New York startups need founder agreements and proper entity formation. LOBEJ guides founders through legal setup,

A thought experiment for business owners Imagine that tomorrow you’re in the hospital for 90 days.

Protect family business assets from shareholder litigation and probate delays. Learn buy-sell agreements, succession planning, and

A woman spends 20 years sharing a home with her longtime boyfriend. When he dies, he

Find skilled estate planning counsel in New York and New Jersey. LOBEJ advises high-net-worth families on

A rental property often represents decades of a parent’s work: the first down payment, years of

When one partner dies before the wedding, a grieving family may suddenly face a venue that

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The spot where your driveway crosses the public sidewalk may be small, but it raises big

Two estate planning concerns often arise together: “How do I provide for my spouse while making

The reported dispute involving Dolly Parton’s estate and her nephew, Bryan Seaver, offers an important estate

Discovering that a relative may have taken money from your trust is troubling enough. Learning that

A parental gift can make buying a first home possible. But when the buyer purchases with

A Terms of Use Agreement is more than website boilerplate. It is the agreement between a

For generations, estate planning centered on what happens after death: who receives the house, the accounts,

Artificial intelligence has arrived in the practice of law, and it has arrived loudly. Depending on

You spot a competitor using a name, logo, or tagline that looks a little too close

A fifty-fifty partnership runs beautifully until the day it does not, and then every decision freezes

You build the business one decision at a time, yet many owners never decide the most