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Todd A. Schulman Associate

Mr. Schulman is a Senior Associate in our Trusts and Estates Department. Mr. Schulman concentrates his practice in providing clients with sophisticated estate and financial planning and in counseling executors, administrators and trustees in all aspects of the administration of estates and trusts.

Services provided include: meeting with clients and creating an estate plan, drafting the relevant documents, probating wills in Surrogate’s Court, initiating and responding to claims against an estate, providing representation in the event of an estate or gift tax audit, transferring title to assets, making final distributions and closing an estate. Additionally, Mr. Schulman assists clients who are contesting a will or responding to a will contest, as well as those who are dealing with contested accountings of an executor, administrator or trustee.

Mr. Schulman is experienced with representing celebrity and other high-profile clients, and delicately responding to their special privacy concerns. In addition to estate planning and estate and trust administration, Mr. Schulman is experienced with drafting and negotiating Prenuptial Agreements, transferring ownership of residential property and representing artists and art collectors.

Admissions

• New York

Education

• Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (of Yeshiva University), JD, 2000. Honors: Accelerated Entry Program, Yeshiva University Scholar, Jacob Burns Scholar, Heyman/ACCA In-House Counsel Internship. Co-Founder: Tree of Life Society
• Muhlenberg College, BS 1996, Natural Science. Honors: Dean’s List, All-American Scholar, Alpha Epsilon Delta (national pre-medical honor society), National Collegiate Natural Science Award. Memberships: Sigma Pi Fraternity (Social Chair, 1993), Environmental Action Alliance, Hillel

Memberships

• New York Bar Association
• Trusts and Estates Law Section, Young Lawyers Section of American Bar Association
• Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Section; Law Practice Management Section; Young Lawyers Division
• New York County Bar Association
• Estates, Trusts and Surrogate’s Court Practice Section; Young Lawyers Section

Practice Areas

• Estate and Financial Planning
• Estate and Trust Administration
• Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax
• Matrimonial Law
• Real Property Law
• Art Law (Consignment Agreements; Leases of Works of Art to Museums and Galleries; Representation and Non-Circumvention Agreements)

Published Works

• Trusts & Estates Magazine, March 2005 – contributed to an article about the status of so-called “literary executors” under New York law.

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