• Probate (NJ)
• Estate administration
• Complex estate tax planning referrals to colleagues with whom we have worked and who we respect

Steven A. Sklar obtained his early working experience as an associate in corporate and trusts and estates law at the forty-lawyer firms in Hartford, Connecticut and Morristown, New Jersey. There, he handled estate administration matters, estate planning matters,corporate and estate tax matters and disputes, and drafted agreements involved in the establishment of corporations and other collaborative ventures. He also handled customs law matters for Rode & Qualey in New York City as a summer associate.

He opened his own practice in 1990.

Nila M. Pusin, before retiring from the practice of law, handled probate, estate administration and estate litigation matters for the firm. Before joining the firm, she gained experience in estate litigation matters during her seven years of work as an associate at the firm of Starr, Gern, Davison & Rubin (formerly Gern, Dunetz, Davison & Weinstein) in Roseland, New Jersey.

• Experience dealing with a variety of governmental agencies, such as surrogate's offices, probate courts, Internal Revenue Service, New York and New Jersey taxation authorities, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services, Medicare/Medicaid authorities, state departments of labor, and the former U.S. Customs Service
  
  
• Personal fiduciary experience, successfully handling estate administration matters despite significant beneficiary acrimony.
  
  
• The firm works with a valuable network of competent attorney and accountant contacts it has developed. Their areas of expertise supplement the firm's own, and both the firm and, by extension, its clients can rely on them to provide reliable, competent assistance, under our guidance where necessary.

e-mail to: sklar@stevensklar.com