Attorney Profile
Nicholas G. Moneta
AssociateNicholas 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.
Nicholas is a Chairperson of the Estate Planning Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Trusts & Estates Law Section and serves as the Section’s Tenth District Representative. As a member of the Section’s Executive Committee, Nicholas comments and votes on and drafts proposals for new and amended trusts and estates-related New York legislation. Previously, Nicholas served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Trusts & Estates Law Section Journal of the New York State Bar Association.
Nicholas serves as a Board Member of the Executive Board of the Estate Planning Council of Long Island. He is also a graduate of the Mid-Atlantic Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).
Nicholas has been published in the New York Law Journal and the Trusts & Estates Law Section Journal of the New York State Bar Association and has appeared in a handful of episodes in such television crime dramas as Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, and Unforgettable.
926 RXR Plaza
Uniondale, NY 11556-0926
New York
Court AdmissionsUnited States Tax Court
Bar AffiliationsNew York State Bar Association, Trusts and Estates Law Section, Co-Chair of the Estate Planning Committee, Tenth District Representative, and Member of the Executive Committee
Estate Planning Council of Long Island, Executive Board Member
EducationMaurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, Juris Doctor, cum laude
Adelphi University, B.F.A., magna cum laude
Practice Groups
News & Publications
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La Ferlita, Moneta, and Pius Published in NYSBA T&E Journal
October 3 | 2024 -
Moneta Elected to Serve as Board Member of Executive Board of Estate Planning Council of Long Island
May 23 | 2024 -
New York Enacts Transfer-on-Death Deed Law
May 21 | 2024
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