Joseph T. La Ferlita

Joseph T. La Ferlita is an attorney with Rivkin Radler LLP in Uniondale, New York, where he focuses his practice on Trusts and Estates. His work centers on estate planning, estate and trust administration, and tax controversy matters. He advises individual planning clients, beneficiaries, individual and corporate fiduciaries, and not-for-profit organizations, including public charities and private foundations, on a wide range of estate- and trust-related issues before the New York Surrogate’s Court and the U.S. Tax Court.

Mr. La Ferlita’s experience includes drafting wills and trusts, implementing estate and generation-skipping transfer tax planning strategies, and representing clients in audits of estate tax and income tax returns. His practice also involves probate and administration proceedings, judicial accounting matters, proceedings seeking advice and direction for executors and trustees, spousal elective share proceedings, and matters involving the construction and reformation of wills and trusts. In addition, he assists with the formation of not-for-profit entities, prepares requests for private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service, and has contributed to proposals for new and amended New York statutes affecting trusts and estates.