ELDER LAW, ESTATE PLANNING, Probate & Estate Litigation ATTORNEYs IN ESSEX COUNTY NJ
Protecting Your Family, Your Assets & Your Legacy
At Catenaro Law, we help individuals and families throughout Essex, Morris, Bergen, Passaic, and Northern New Jersey plan for the future, protect what they have worked a lifetime to build, navigate the probate process, and resolve difficult estate and trust disputes.
Whether you need an estate plan, are concerned about Medicaid and nursing home costs, have been named executor of a loved one’s Will, or are facing a Will contest, trust dispute, or other estate litigation, we provide experienced legal guidance with the personal attention and compassion your family deserves.
Your family. Your assets. Your wishes. Our priority.
At Catenaro Law, we focus our practice on four closely related areas of New Jersey law:
By concentrating our practice in these 4 areas, we are able to provide individuals and families with knowledgeable, personalized legal guidance through some of life’s most important—and sometimes most difficult—decisions.
Whether you are planning for your family’s future, concerned about protecting assets from the rising cost of long-term care, administering the estate of a loved one who has passed away, or facing a contested Will, Trust, or inheritance dispute, Catenaro Law is here to help.
Serving clients & families in:
Essex County, including Fairfield, North Caldwell, West Caldwell, Caldwell, Cedar Grove, Roseland, Livingston, Belleville, West Orange, Nutley, Glen Ridge and Montclair;
Morris County, including Montville, East Hanover, Kinnelon, Parsippany, Pompton Plains, and Florham Park;
Bergen County, including Wyckoff, Ramsey, Garfield, Lyndhurst, Teaneck, Ridgewood, and Ridgefield Park.
Passaic County, including Wayne, Riverdale, Lincoln Park, North Haledon; and
Ocean County, including Toms River, Spring Lake, Whiting, Wall Township, and Red Bank.
We prepare Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Healthcare Proxies, and Advance Healthcare Directives tailored to protect you, your family, and your assets.
We guide executors and administrators through every stage of New Jersey probate and estate administration, from the County Surrogate’s Court through the final distribution of estate assets.
We litigate estate and probate disputes on behalf of beneficiaries, heirs, executors, and administrators in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, Probate Part.
If you have been named executor in a Will or need to become administrator of an estate when someone dies without a Will, we can guide you through the New Jersey probate process.
We assist executors & administrators in every step of the probate and estate administration process from getting a person appointed executor or administrator by the Surrogate’s Court, marshaling assets, paying debts, getting tax waivers, drafting release and refunding bonds, preparing accountings for final distribution of an estate. Dealing with the loss of a loved one is difficult enough.
Whether your loved one passed with a Will (testate) or without a Will (intestate), let us relieve some of the burden and handle the estate work for you and your family.
Protect your family, your assets, and your wishes with a personalized estate plan. We prepare Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Healthcare Proxies, and Advance Healthcare Directives (Living Wills) designed around your family, finances, and goals.
We tailor estate plans to each client’s goals. Whether a client hopes to enrich the next generation, ensure financial security for their special-needs child, eliminate acrimony between children and spouses from a present or prior marriage, pass assets without being disqualified from medicaid, ensure they have a say at the end of their lives, or relieve family members from making that most difficult decision,
Catenaro Law is the name you can rely on to ensure that your wishes and your future estate are handled competently, professionally and with compassion.
If you believe a loved one's Will does not reflect their true intentions because of undue influence, lack of testamentary capacity, or other circumstances affecting the validity of the Will, we can represent you in a New Jersey Will contest. We also represent clients defending Wills against challenges.
We represent trustees and beneficiaries in disputes involving the administration of trusts, trustee conduct, distributions, accountings, interpretation of trust provisions, and alleged breaches of fiduciary duty.
We also represent executors, administrators, and trustees who have been accused of breaching their fiduciary duties, as well as beneficiaries who believe a fiduciary has mismanaged assets, engaged in self-dealing, failed to provide information, or otherwise failed to properly administer an estate or trust.
Your family. Your assets. Your wishes. Our priority.
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