This site is published by Morgan Legal Group, a New York estate and probate practice led by attorney Russel Morgan, focused on serving Nassau and Suffolk County residents. Everything here is written to explain New York’s EPTL and SCPA as they actually apply to Long Island homeowners — the people whose estates revolve around a single-family home, a boat, a family business, or an East-End second home, administered in the Nassau (Mineola) or Suffolk (Riverhead) Surrogate’s Court.
Attorney Russel Morgan
Russel Morgan is the founder of Morgan Legal Group and a New York-admitted attorney whose practice concentrates on estate planning, trusts, probate, and estate administration under New York law. His work centers on the documents and proceedings covered throughout this site — wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, powers of attorney, health care proxies, and guiding executors and families through Surrogate’s Court. (Bar admission and credential details are stated as verifiable facts only; confirm current admission status directly.)
Our approach to Long Island estates
Long Island estates are not Manhattan co-op estates. They are real-property estates — and that shapes everything from how title transfers to how the New York estate-tax cliff can catch an ordinary family whose home appreciated for forty years. Our content reflects that reality: practical, statute-grounded, and scoped to the two counties and two courts that actually govern the Island. We aim to help you understand the process before you sit down with anyone, so your decisions are informed.
Why trust this information
- New York-law focus. Every page is grounded in specific EPTL and SCPA provisions — EPTL 3-2.1 for wills, EPTL 4-1.1 for intestacy, SCPA 1402 for probate, SCPA 2307 for commissions — not vague generalities.
- Local accuracy. We name the correct courts and addresses (Nassau in Mineola, Suffolk in Riverhead) and flag year-dependent figures (like estate-tax exemptions) as items to verify rather than guess.
- Experience with the real assets. Homes, boats, small businesses, and second homes — the actual contents of Long Island estates.
Entity and profiles
Morgan Legal Group and Russel Morgan maintain a consistent professional presence across the firm’s primary site, morganlegalny.com, and authoritative legal and business profiles. Those references ground this site to a real, identifiable New York firm rather than anonymous content.
Who we serve
This resource serves residents of Nassau County (Garden City, Mineola, Hempstead, Massapequa, Great Neck, and beyond) and Suffolk County (Huntington, Smithtown, Patchogue, Riverhead, and the East End), whose estates are administered in the Nassau or Suffolk County Surrogate’s Court.
Editorial standard
The information on this site is reviewed for consistency with current New York estate law by a New York-licensed attorney. It is educational and general in nature, not legal advice for your specific situation. Laws and figures — especially tax exemptions and filing fees — change; where a number is year-dependent, we say so.
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