Elder Law Attorney Profiles

The Elder Care Lawyers at Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano, LLP

Anthony J. Enea

Member

Email: aenea@aol.com

Practice Areas: Elder Law; Medicaid Planning; Nursing Home Negligence; Nursing Home Planning; Wills, Trusts and Estates; Probate; Guardianships (Contested/Non-Contested); Will and Trust Litigation.

Admitted: 1986, New York; U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

Law School: Pace University, J.D., 1985

College: Manhattan College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1981

Member: Westchester County Bar (Past President; Former Co-Chairperson Elder Law Committee, 1992-2006; Former Chairperson: Lawyer Referral Service Committee; Military Law Committee; Member, Elder Law Committee and Trusts and Estates Section) and New York State Bar (Member: Secretary of Editor-in-Chief of "Elder Law Attorney" of Elder Law Section; Former Co-Chairperson of Guardianship and Fiduciary Committee of Elder Law Section; Executive Committee of Trusts and Estates Section; Vice Chairperson, Committee on the Elderly and Disabled of Trusts and Estates Section); National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (Charter Member and President-Elect of New York Chapter of NAELA); Columbian Lawyers Association of Westchester County.

Biography: Certified as an Elder Law Attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation as Accredited by the American Bar Association. Member of Council of Advanced Practitioners of NAELA, Former Editor-in-Chief, Senior Editor and Contributing Author, Westchester County Bar Journal. Contributing Author, Westchester County Bar Association Newsletter. "Have You DRA Proofed of Attorney," Elder Law Attorney, Fall, 2007; New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Law Section Newsletter, Volume 40, Winter, 2007. The ABC's of SNT's (Special Needs Trusts), New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Law Section Newsletter, Volume 41, Spring, 2008. "How to Prevent Family Conflicts in the Event of Incapacity: Using Article 81 of the Mental Hygiene Law When a Clash is Inevitable," Elder Law Attorney, Fall, 2008; New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estate Law Section Newsletter, Volume 41, Winter, 2008. "The Treatment of Joint Accounts in an Article 81 Guardianship Proceeding," New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Law Section Newsletter, Volume 42, Summer, 2009. "What Every Attorney Should Know about New POA Form," Westchester County Bar Newsletter, September 2009; New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Law Section Newsletter, Volume 43, Summer, 2009. "Separated But Not Divorced: Why We All Can't Be Like Spencer Tracy," New York State Bar Association Elder Law Attorneys, Winter, 2004; "Seven Defensive Will Drafting Tips for the Elder Law and Trusts and Estates Practitioner," New York State Bar Association Elder Law Attorney, Fall 2004; "New York Medicaid Reform: The 2005-2006 Budget," Elder Law Attorney, Summer 2005; "How to Distinguish Yourself from Those 'Dabbling' in Elder Law," Elder Law Attorney, Fall 2005. "Irrevocable Income Only Trust a/k/a Medicaid Qualifying Trust: What Every Attorney Should Know," Trusts and Estates Section News Letter, New York State Bar Association, Winter 2005/2006, "The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 and its Effect upon Transfers of Real Property and Assets" Real Property Section Journal, New York State Bar Winter 2007. Frequent Lecturer, Elder Law, Trusts and Estates and Guardianship Programs, Westchester County and New York State Bar Associations. Speaker: CLE Programs for Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Elder Law Programs, New York State Bar Association; "Advanced Document Drafting for the Elder Law Attorney," Spring, 2005 and "Real Property Transactions and Medicaid," Elder Law Section Meeting, Fall 2005, New York State Bar Association. Program Co-Chair Fall Meeting of Elder Law Section Advanced Institute, Program Chair in Westchester County, "Advanced Elder Law Seminar," Spring 2002, New York State Bar Association, Continued Legal Education. Selected Program Chair, Westchester "Basics of Elder Law" Seminar, Elder Law Section, New York State Bar, Spring 2005, Speaker, Summer Meeting , Elder Law Section 2006, Speaker "New Medicaid Law", Elder Law Section, Fall 2006, Speaker, New York State Bar General Practice Section Annual Meeting Winter 2007. Member: Estate Planning Council of Westchester County, Inc.; Board of Directors, Association of Mentally Ill Children of Westchester County; Board of Ethics, Town of Somers.

Languages: Italian

ISLN: 907595739

Sara E. Meyers

Associate
Email: s.meyers@esslawfirm.com

Practice Areas: Elder Law; Medicaid Planning; Home Health Care; Wills; Trusts and Estates; Guardianship.

Admitted: 1996, New York

Law School: Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D., 1995

College: Brandeis University, B.A., cum laude, 1992

Member: Westchester County (Member, Elder Law Committee; Editor, Westchester County Bar Journal) and New York State (Member, Sections on: Elder Law; Trusts and Estates) Bar Associations.

Biography: Author: "Utilizing Medicaid Home Care as a Solution in a Post DRA World," New York State Bar Association Elder Law Attorney, Summer 2007 and Westchester County Bar Newsletter, June 2007. Frequent Lecturer, Elder Law Programs, New York State Bar and Westchester County Bar Associations, Sadin Law Institute of the Brookdale Center on Aging. Speaker, New York State Bar: "The New Medicaid Law," Seminar, Elder Law Section, Fall 2006; "Basics of Elder Law," Seminar, Elder Law Section, Spring 2007; "Supplemental Needs Trusts," Seminar, Fall 2007. NYSBA, Spring 2007 "Basic Elder Law Practice" Seminar, Pace Law School CLE, Fall 2004 and Spring 2007; "Medicare Part D," Senior Umbrella Network of Nassau County (SUNN) and Sunnyside Senior Center, Queens, NY; New York City Mayor's Conference on Alzheimer's Disease, Fall 2006; "Early Stage Forum," Alzheimer's Association, Spring 2007; "Advanced Medicaid Update," Department of Health Care & Public Administration, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 2000-2006. Featured: New York Newsday; BCAT Brooklyn Cable Television, Reporter's Roundtable.

Born: New York, New York, November 4, 1970

ISLN: 914562021

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