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Estate Planning: Going Beyond The Basics To Cover Yourself & Benefit Your Family

Many people make the mistake of believing that if they have created a proper will, power of attorney and an advance directive for healthcare, they have satisfied their estate planning needs.  These are the basic requirements, but they must be supplemented with appropriate retirement planning, if applicable, since a significant portion of many client’s assets, their tax deferred retirement accounts—traditional IRA’s, 401(k)’s and 403(b)’s—are not covered by their wills. ...read more

R.J. Contant Discusses Gifts & Estate Tax Planning in NJBIZ Article

R.J. Contant, a Partner in Archer's Hackensack office, discusses gift & estate tax planning to consider before certain tax laws are due to expire at the end of the year, in this NJBIZ article from October 22, 2012. ...read more

Hackensack Office Attorneys Offer CPE Courses for Accountants

Archer PC is a full-service regional law firm with more than 200 lawyers and eight offices in Haddonfield, Hackensack, Princeton and Flemington, N.J.; Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.; and Wilmington and Georgetown, Del. The Firm has been serving Fortune 100 clients, small to medium-sized businesses and individuals for more than 80 years. Each office provides full-service litigation and transactional capabilities in nearly every area of law including corporate, estate & trust, family & matrimonial, labor & employment, litigation, medical & personal injury and real estate services. For more information, visit www.archerlaw.com.  ...read more

Bergen County Bar Association 19th Annual Land Use Symposium

Richard Jon Contant, a Partner in Archer's Hackensack, N.J., office, will be among the presenters this Saturday, March 10, for the Bergen County Bar Association's 19th Annual Land Use Symposium at Bergen Community College in Paramus. ...read more

Jan. 12, 2017 - Essentials of Estate Planning, with an Emphasis on Business Owners

Andrew J. Cevasco, Esq. and Richard J. Contant, Esq. gave a seminar on the Essentials of Estate Planning, with an Emphasis on Business Owners to the Hudson-Bergen Inn of Transactional Counsel. ...read more

The New Jersey Uniform Trust Code – An Overview, Issues and Opportunities

Free CPE for CPAs Hosted by Archer P.C. ...read more

Richard Jon Contant to Present at Bergen County Bar Association Land Use Symposium

Richard Jon Contant, a member of Archer, P.C.'s Land Use Group, will be presenting at the Bergen County Bar Association Land Use Symposium on May 7, 2016, an analysis of Grabowsky v. Township of Montclair, one of the significant decisions issued by the New Jersey Supreme Court in 2015 that involves the subject of potential conflicts of interests for local Planning and Zoning boards in New Jersey.  Part of the Symposium involves permitting Planning and Zoning Board members the opportunity to secure necessary certification to allow them to sit on such Boards, while the remainder provides continuing legal education for attorneys practicing in these fields or which have an interest in learning about them. ...read more