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, codicils, trust instruments and amendments, advance directives, and gift and estate tax returns. He frequently facilitates, among other things, irrevocable trust decantings, sales to intentionally defective grantor trusts, and represents clients throughout all aspects of probate and administration proceedings in the Surrogate’s Court.

Nicholas is Co-Chair 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 proposals for new and amended trusts and estates-related New York legislation.

Nicholas is a Graduate of the Mid-Atlantic Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and a Committee Member of the Associate Membership Committee of the Estate Planning Council of Long Island. Previously, Nicholas served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Trusts & Estates Law Section Journal of the New York State Bar Association and has been published in the New York Law Journal and the Trusts & Estates Law Section Journal of the New York State Bar Association.

Nicholas has appeared in a handful of episodes in such crime show dramas as Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, and Unforgettable.