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Richard A. Klass
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The Law Office of Richard A. Klass, Esq.
Providing legal services to individuals, families, businesses and other law firms.
Attorneys admitted to New York and New Jersey.
Areas of Practice
- Abandoned property petitions and litigation
- Bankruptcy (Chapters 7, 11 and 13; for both debtor and creditor)
- Debt Collection
- Family Law and Matrimonial Law
- Family law, including child custody and visitation, Orders of Protection, child support, and private placement adoptions
- Matrimonial law, including divorce, annulment, and prenuptial and separation agreements
- Name change applications
- Insurance and no-fault benefits
- Legal Malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, attorney negligence
- Litigation: commercial and general litigation
- Civil Appeals, both Federal and State courts
- Federal Court litigation
- Personal injury
- Medical Malpractice
- Workers Compensation ("Worker's Comp")
- Real estate litigation
- Foreclosure: mortgage and lien foreclosure
- Foreclosure: residential and commercial litigation and assistance
- Property damage
- Real estate transactions: for real property, condominiums, and cooperative units
- Wills and Probate; administration of decedent's estates
And those cases that do not fit into a "pigeon hole."
New issue of LawCURRENTS™
The quarterly newsletter written and published
by the Law Office of Richard Klass.
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More than fifty years ago, a charitable woman executed her Last Will and Testament, bequeathing all of her assets to two Catholic charities in the event that her siblings did not survive her. The two Catholic charities named in the Will were the Columbus Hospital and St. Joseph Rest Home for the Aged, each to get 50% of her estate. Both of these institutions were founded or operated by Italian American Catholic Orders. In March 2008, the woman passed away, leaving more than $3,000,000 worth of assets in her estate. Since her siblings predeceased her, the Will left everything to the two Catholic charities....(more) |
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Richard Klass in the News
Seward Park co-op board voids sale of one-bedroom that went at auction for $329G
By Barbara Ross
New York Daily News
Thursday, December 1, 2011"Linda Salamon thought she won the real estate lottery last May when she bought a $400,000 one-bedroom co-op apartment on the lower East Side for $329,000 at a public auction...."
"...Salamon declined to discuss her battle, but her lawyer Richard Klass said that under state law, the co-op board cannot exercise its right of first refusal because the sale is not voluntary; it was forced by the lender.
"He also noted that Seward Park's board was notified of the auction and could have bid on the apartment when Salamon won the unit...."
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