Eldon Trust & Estate Resource Library

Explore estate planning for online businesses, websites, domain names, copyrights, trademarks, and digital intellectual property. Learn how New York business owners can plan for succession, transfer of ownership, and continued management of valuable online assets.

Discover what happens to digital photographs, family videos, and cloud storage accounts after death. Learn about Apple iCloud Legacy Contacts, Google Photos, account access, and estate planning considerations for preserving important digital family memories.

Learn about New York estate administration, including probate, fiduciary duties, estate assets, debts, taxes, accountings, beneficiaries, and distributions.

Learn how trusts work in New York, including revocable and irrevocable trusts, probate avoidance, trust funding, trustees, beneficiaries, and Medicaid planning.

Learn about New York powers of attorney, health care proxies, living wills, and advance directives for financial, medical, and incapacity planning.

Learn how business succession planning works in New York, including family transfers, buy-sell agreements, valuation, estate planning, taxes, and planning for death or incapacity.

Learn about trust administration in New York, including trustee duties, trust assets, distributions, accounting, taxes, beneficiaries, and fiduciary responsibilities.

Learn how trust planning can address management of a child’s inheritance when a parent is untrustworthy, while recognizing custody, funding, and legal limits.

Understand the grounds and process for removing a New York executor, alternatives to removal, and practical steps when estate assets may be at risk.

Learn when a New York executor can sell estate property, when consent or court approval may be needed, and how sale proceeds should be handled.

Compare Wills and Trusts to decide which fits your needs.

Review key life events that should prompt an Estate Plan update.

Planning ahead can help protect assets.

Generation-Skipping Trusts can transfer assets to future generations potentially minimizing estate taxes.

Charitable Trusts can support philanthropic goals, provide tax advantages, and create a lasting legacy.

Help protect assets, preserve wealth, and accomplish long-term estate planning goals under New York law.

Learn how online financial accounts, cryptocurrency, digital wallets, payment platforms, and other digital property may be handled after death. Explore inheritance considerations, fiduciary access, and estate planning strategies for valuable digital assets under New York law.

What happens to Facebook, Instagram, and other social media profiles after someone dies? Learn about memorialized accounts, legacy contacts, account deletion, and how New York estate planning can help document preferences for managing your online identity.

Learn how wills work in New York, including legal requirements, executors, guardians, probate, intestacy, beneficiary issues, and when to update a will.

Explore estate planning for high-net-worth New Yorkers, including trusts, estate tax planning, asset protection, business succession, and legacy planning.

Learn about guardianship planning in New York, including guardians for minor children, adult guardianship, incapacity planning, and alternatives to guardianship.

Learn what New York executors and administrators do, including collecting assets, paying debts and taxes, accounting to beneficiaries, and distributing an estate.

Learn about contested estates in New York, including will contests, undue influence, executor disputes, estate accountings, beneficiary rights, and disputed assets.

Understand how to change financial and health care agents after an abusive relationship, with attention to New York revocation rules, notices, and implementation.

Understand when a New York executor may face personal liability and how estate debts differ from responsibility for improper administration.

Understand a New York executor’s responsibilities, including court appointment, estate assets, debts, taxes, beneficiary communication, and distributions.

Get clear answers about different types of Trusts in New York

Learn how probate works in New York

Grantor Trusts allow the creator to retain certain powers for income tax purposes.

Spendthrift Trusts help protect beneficiaries from creditors and poor financial decisions.

Testamentary Trusts are created through a will and take effect after death, helping manage and distribute assets according to your wishes.

Special Needs Trusts help provide financial security for individuals with disabilities, while preserving eligibility for essential government benefits.

Can an executor or family member access a deceased person's emails? Explore New York laws governing electronic communications, Gmail account access, digital privacy, and how wills and powers of attorney can address disclosure of private digital information.

Learn how digital asset estate planning can help protect online accounts, social media, cryptocurrency, family photographs, and private communications. Explore how New York law addresses digital asset access, privacy, and fiduciary authority after death or incapacity.

Learn how wills work in New York, including legal requirements, executors, guardians, probate, intestacy, beneficiary issues, and when to update a will.

Learn about asset protection planning in New York and strategies involving trusts, estate planning, business interests, real estate, and long-term care planning.

Overview of New York elder law and Medicaid planning, including long-term care, asset protection, trusts, powers of attorney, and planning for future care.

Learn about New York estate accountings and tax responsibilities, including fiduciary records, beneficiary rights, estate income taxes, estate taxes, and distributions.

Understand how separation and divorce affect New York estate planning, including decision-makers, inheritance rights, beneficiary designations, and court restrictions.

Review estate planning concerns involving abuse, trusted decision-makers, children’s inheritances, spousal rights, and communication privacy.

Understand New York executor commission rates, calculation examples, payment procedures, tax treatment, and common compensation questions.

Understand how to align beneficiary designations and trust funding with your plan.

Overview of how assets pass without a will in New York.

Get answers to common questions about Wills

Qualified Personal Residence Trusts can help reduce estate taxes on a primary residence.

Medicaid Asset Protection Trusts can help protect certain assets while planning for long-term care.

Revocable Living Trusts allow individuals to manage their assets during their living while maintaining flexibility and potentially avoiding probate.