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Your Trusted New Jersey Estate Planning & Elder Law Firm
Van Dyck Law Group is a full-service estate planning law firm dedicated to providing personalized legal solutions for families and individuals. With a focus on elder law, Medicaid planning, and long-term care strategies, we serve clients across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. Our team prioritizes client needs by utilizing tailored legal tools and techniques that align with individual goals and circumstances.We are committed to guiding clients through complex legal processes with compassion and expertise, ensuring asset protection and peace of mind. Our services include wills, trusts, probate administration, and specialized dementia care planning. By combining legal acumen with empathetic support, we help families navigate estate planning challenges while preserving their legacies and protecting their futures.
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Estate Planning
Elder Law
Medicaid Planning
Probate Administration
Trust Administration
Dementia Planning
Long-Term Care
Wills & Trusts
Asset Protection
Guardianship Services
Highlights and features
- We treat clients and their families like our own, prioritizing compassion and understanding.
- Our team provides personalized guidance through every stage of estate planning.
- We specialize in asset protection strategies tailored to individual needs and goals.
- Our expertise includes avoiding probate through revocable and irrevocable trust creation.
- We offer compassionate dementia and Alzheimer's care planning services.
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Services
Estate Planning
Our estate planning services create legally binding frameworks to manage and distribute assets according to client wishes. We specialize in wills, trusts, and advanced directives that ensure smooth transitions during life changes or after death. Clients benefit from customized strategies that minimize tax burdens, avoid probate, and protect beneficiaries' interests through comprehensive documentation.
Elder Law
Elder law services address aging-related legal challenges including long-term care planning, guardianship, and Medicaid eligibility. We help families navigate nursing home costs, asset protection, and healthcare decision-making while maintaining dignity and independence for senior clients through tailored legal solutions.
Medicaid Planning
Medicaid planning services help clients qualify for government assistance while protecting family assets. Our strategies include legal asset restructuring, trust creation, and benefits applications that ensure access to quality care without complete financial depletion for long-term healthcare needs.
Probate Administration
Probate administration handles legal estate transitions after death, including will validation, asset inventory, debt settlement, and property distribution. We guide executors through court processes while minimizing delays and conflicts, ensuring efficient resolution of decedent's affairs according to New Jersey laws.
Dementia Planning
Dementia planning services combine legal documentation with caregiving strategies for Alzheimer's and cognitive decline cases. We create specialized directives, guardianship arrangements, and care coordination plans that protect decision-making authority while supporting families through progressive memory loss challenges.
People
Fiona Van Dyck
Managing Partner
Fiona Van Dyck combines legal expertise with compassionate guidance, specializing in estate planning and elder law. Her practice focuses on creating personalized solutions for families facing complex legal and caregiving challenges related to aging and long-term care needs.
Shikha Patel
Associate Attorney
Shikha Patel specializes in estate planning documentation, including wills and trusts. She helps clients protect assets and establish clear directives for healthcare and financial decision-making through comprehensive legal frameworks tailored to individual circumstances.
Amanjit Heir
Associate Attorney
Amanjit Heir focuses on estate and trust planning with emphasis on Medicaid eligibility strategies. His practice addresses complex elder law issues including long-term care financing and asset protection for families navigating senior care challenges.
Regina Taylor
Director of Life Care Planning
Regina Taylor brings 30+ years of senior care experience to coordinate life care resources. She specializes in connecting families with appropriate caregiving services while implementing legal protections for vulnerable adults requiring ongoing support.
Sheli Monacchio
Executive Director
Sheli Monacchio leads senior care operations with extensive experience in geriatric care management. Her leadership focuses on integrating legal protections with practical caregiving solutions through collaborative approaches that address both immediate and future care requirements.
Questions
What estate planning documents are essential for New Jersey residents?
Essential documents include wills, revocable living trusts, durable powers of attorney, and healthcare directives. These ensure proper asset distribution, decision-making authority during incapacity, and healthcare preferences documentation.
How can Medicaid planning protect my assets?
Medicaid planning uses legal strategies like irrevocable trusts and asset transfers to protect resources while qualifying for government assistance. Proper planning preserves family wealth while ensuring access to necessary long-term care services.
What happens if I don't create an estate plan?
Without planning, state intestacy laws determine asset distribution. This often results in unintended beneficiaries, family conflicts, and prolonged probate processes that deplete estate value through unnecessary legal expenses.
How does dementia planning differ from standard elder law services?
Dementia planning requires specialized legal tools addressing progressive cognitive decline. It combines traditional elder law protections with unique provisions for evolving decision-making capacity and structured caregiving support frameworks.
Can I update existing estate documents?
Yes, we recommend reviewing and updating documents every 3-5 years or after major life events. Our team helps revise wills, trusts, and directives to reflect current wishes and changing legal requirements.
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Reviews (4)
Joanne Baloga
Jun 04, 2021
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I am so grateful to Van Dyke Law! I do not live locally and am only able to help my parents through phone contact. Leslie is a Godsend! She is always very responsive to my calls and went above and beyond to assist my parents with a real estate transaction. She understands that not all elders know how to utilize today's technology, which creates a great deal of stress for them. My parents raved about the entire Van Dyke team. As a person who has hearing loss, my step-father told me that Fiona was easy to talk to and understand and he felt she really listened to him! I spoke with him today and he
Deedee M.
Jun 01, 2021
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Leslie and the entire team with Fiona at Van Dyke are amazing! Leslie and the education center just held an amazing CPD course. Excellent education classes offered as well as all the legal needs you need.
Keith Shevlin
May 27, 2021
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I recently took Sheli's Certified Dementia Practitioner training. It was very informative and she does a wonderful job communicating the curriculum in a way that is easy to understand. I found the material extremely helpful for the staff we employ and the clients we serve.
Greg Monticchio
Mar 13, 2021
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Fiona facilitated a webinar through the South Brunswick Senior Center . She provided a log of useful information about items to consider for the "2nd Half of your Life". I haven't utilized the services at this time, however will consider if and when needed down the road.
