Nicholas G. Moneta’s practice is focused on trusts and estates law, with an emphasis on estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax planning and estate and trust administration. He advises individual planning clients, beneficiaries of estates and trusts, and fiduciaries. Nicholas regularly prepares wills and trusts, advance directives, and gift and estate tax returns. He frequently facilitates, among other things, irrevocable trust decantings and sales to intentionally defective grantor trusts. Nicholas represents clients throughout all aspects of probate and administration proceedings in the Surrogate’s Court.

He is a Chairperson of the Estate Planning Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Trusts & Estates Law Section. As a member of the Section’s Executive Committee, Nicholas comments, votes on, and drafts proposals for new and amended trusts and estates-related New York legislation. Previously, Nicholas served as the Section’s Tenth District Representative and the Editor-in-Chief of the Trusts & Estates Law Section Journal of the New York State Bar Association.

Nicholas currently serves as a Board Member of the Executive Board of the Estate Planning Council of Long Island and as Chairperson of the Council’s Associate Membership Committee. He is also a graduate of the Mid-Atlantic Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).

He has been named a New York Metro Super Lawyers Rising Star since 2024 for Estate & Probate, an honor reserved for the top 2.5% of lawyers who exhibit excellence in their practice area. Additionally, Nicholas was awarded a 2024 Leaders in Law Award by Long Island Business News.

Nicholas’s written work has been published in the New York Law Journal and the Trusts & Estates Law Section Journal of the New York State Bar Association. He has appeared in a handful of episodes in such television crime dramas as Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, and Unforgettable.