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Legal Knowledge and Experience You Can Trust.

Legal Knowledge and Experience You Can Trust.

Providing Legal Assistance in Long Island, NY

Property Rights Litigation

Real Estate

  • Deed Disputes

Fraudulent Deeds

  • Forgery
  • Undue Influence
  • Sale - Leaseback Scams
  • Transfers: not fair, open, voluntary, and well-understood

Life Estates

  • Rights and remedies

Constructive Trusts

  • ownership implied in law

Partition

  • Ownership rights of multiple owners of a property

Adverse Possession

  • Ownership through observable use
  • Foreclosure Defense

Fraudulent Deed

Usury

  • Interest rate higher than allowed by law

Standing

  • Whether party has the legal right to foreclose

Procedure

  • Whether all required statutory procedures followed

Estates

Probate

  • Where decedent left a will

Administration

  • No will or an invalid will

Will Contests

  • Undue Influence - Will does not represent decedent's wishes
  • Invalid Execution

Beneficiary Issues

  • Wills - Unpaid bequests
  • Trusts - Petitions to compel distributions
  • Accountings

Family Law

Divorce

  • Marital Property
  • Separate Property

Corporations

  • Shareholder Rights
  • Buy - Sell Agreements
  • Dissolutions

Property Rights Transactions

Representation to avoid or minimize litigation

  • Real Estate
  • Buyers
  • Sellers
  • Refinancing
  • Estate Planning
  • Wills
  • Trusts
  • Revocable
  • Irrevocable
  • Life Insurance
  • Health Care Proxies
  • Living Wills
  • Powers of Attorney
  • Family Law
  • Prenuptial Agreements
  • Postnuptial Agreements
  • Separation Agreements
  • Stipulations of Settlement

Personal Rights Litigation

Family Law

  • Marriage and Divorce

Divorce

Child Custody

  • Initial Determinations, modifications, relocation

Child Support

  • Initial determinations, modifications, termination

Spousal Support

  • Initial determinations, modifications, termination

Counsel Fees

Orders of Protection

  • Civil Rights

Malicious Prosecution

False Arrest

Civil Rights

Appeals

Representing appellants and respondents in above practice areas

  • Family Law
  • Adoption and Termination of Parental Rights
  • Visitation
  • Child Support
  • Discovery Sanctions
  • Maintenance
  • Equitable Distribution
  • Counsel Fees
  • Real Estate
  • Action to Void Deed
  • Foreclosure Defense - Fraud
  • Foreclosure Defense - Usury
  • Notice of Pendency

Of Counsel/Consultant to other Law Firms

  • Trial Counsel
  • Litigation Strategy
  • Review of Causes of Action

PROPERTY RIGHTS LITIGATION

Real Estate Litigation (Click on blue links for court decisions)

Disputed Deeds

Estate Litigation

  • Probate
  • Appointment of executors/trustees - letters testamentary/trusteeship
  • Representation of executors selling real estate - proceeds to beneficiaries
  • Will contests based on undue influence and invalid execution
  • Representation of will beneficiaries not
    receiving inheritances
  • Representation of trust beneficiaries not receiving distributions
  • Administration
  • Small Estates (Less than $30,000 in
    gross assets)
  • Executors selling real estate

Family Law Litigation

  • Matrimonials
  • Equitable Distribution
  • Marital Property
  • Separate Property
  • Tax Issues
  • Orders of Protection
  • Obtaining orders of protection for clients
  • Defending clients based on false claims

Shareholder Rights

  • Business Dissolution Actions
  • Corporate marital interest - successfully proved entitlement to marital share
  • Founding shareholder - successfully challenged denial of ownership
  • Shareholder freeze outs

James D. Reddy, Esq.

Education

  • Georgetown University
    • Bachelor of Science, Business Administration
    • Academic Honors
    • Dean's List
  • St. John's University School of Law
    • Juris Doctor, cum laude
    • Academic Honors
    • Editor, St. John's Law Review
    • CALI Award - Drafting Wills and Trust Instruments
    • Class Ranking - 6th in class
  • CLE Lecturer - National Business Institute (Continuing Legal Education)
  • New York Estate Planning and Drafting Fundamentals (2004)
    • Author, The Nuts and Bolts of Will Drafting
    • Author, Drafting and Executing a Trust
  • Estate Planning Basics (2006)
    • Author, What You Need to Know about Working with the Client
    • Wills and Trusts
  • Resolving Estate, Will and Trust Contests (2010)
    • Author, Procedure
  • Trusts 101 (2012)
    • Author, Ethical Considerations
  • Probate Boot Camp (2014)
    • Author, Probate Litigation
  • The Probate Process from Start to Finish (2016)
    • Author, Final Accounting and Closing The Estate
    • Author, Probate Disputes and Litigation
  • Estate Planning & Administration: The Complete Guide (2016)
    • Author, Marshaling Assets and Dealing with Creditors
    • Author, Closing the Estate
  • PROBATE: Everything You Need to Know  (2016)
    • Author, Creditor Claim Conundrums
    • Author, Final Accounting and Closing the Estate
  • Top Challenges In Estate Administration (2018)
  • The Probate Process from Start to Finish (2019)
    • Handling Claims Against the Estate
    • Probate Disputes and Litigation
  • Wills and Trusts 101 (2019)
    • Author, Will Execution
    • Author, Will Drafting

Author, Client Misunderstanding About the Process
Author, Marshaling the Assets : Key Complications

Bar Admissions

New York State
Eastern District of New York (Federal Court)

Languages

  • Spanish
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Portuguese