News & Insights

Associate Attorney Joins Law Firm

NEWS | August 2, 2018

Associate Attorney, Christina M. Noon Joins Twomey Latham Twomey, Latham, Shea, Kelley, Dubin & Quartararo LLP is pleased to announce that Christina M. Noon has joined the firm as an Associate Attorney. Ms. Noon focuses her practice in the areas of estate...

Estate Planning Outside of the Federal Estate Tax

INSIGHTS | By: | May 15, 2018

For a large majority of Americans, the recent doubling of the federal estate tax exemption from $5 million to $10 million, adjusted for inflation annually, in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, will have no effect on their estate. It is important, however, to remember there...

What Are Your Rights as a Trust Beneficiary?

INSIGHTS | By: | May 8, 2018

Trust Beneficiaries are Entitled to Yearly Trust Reports and Other Information Trust reports should be mailed out annually to the beneficiaries and should indicate the Trust’s income and expenses, including commissions paid. If, upon request, the trustee fails to...

Associate Attorney Terrence P. Russell Joins Twomey Latham

NEWS | January 23, 2018

Mr. Russell focuses his practice in the areas of estate planning, trust and estate administration, and elder law. Mr. Russell is graduate of St. John’s University School of Law, where he was a member of the Moot Court Honor Society and the Journal of Civil Rights and...

Associate Bernadette Tuthill Participates In Estate Planning Discussion

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT | December 5, 2017

On November 10th, Associate Bernadette Tuthill took part in an Estate Planning panel discussion for The New York State Society of CPAs, Suffolk East End Committee.  Topics discussed included: when professionals should be raising the issue of estate planning with...

Senior Associate Craig Handler Assists U.S. Marines

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT | October 20, 2017

Floyd Bennet Field, Brooklyn, New York Senior Litigation Associate Craig H. Handler recently participated in a Legal Support Operation for deploying Marines assigned to the 6th Communications Battalion, Force Headquarters Group, Fleet Marine Force, U.S. Marine Corps...

Lorraine Paceleo Joins The Firm

NEWS | April 24, 2017

Twomey, Latham, Shea, Kelley, Dubin & Quartararo is pleased to announce the addition of Lorraine Paceleo as an associate. Ms. Paceleo has been practicing law in New York since 1999, after graduating from St. John’s University School of Law.  Lorraine is also a...

Estate Planning Seminar

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT | August 18, 2016

Laura Dunathan, Esq. and Anne Marie Goodale, Esq., partners in the Estate and Trusts Department of Twomey, Latham, Shea, Kelley, Dubin & Quartararo, conducted a seminar on Estate and Tax Planning with Trusts at The Rogers Memorial Library at 91 Coopers Farm Road...

Popular Estate Planning Tool May Now Be Subject to Tax

INSIGHTS | By: | May 20, 2015

For years estate planning practitioners used a sale to an intentionally defective grantor trust (“IDGT”) to freeze the value of property from the taxable estate of a client. Although not codified in the Internal Revenue Code or regulations as an acceptable estate...