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Jordan M. Wassel joined Schenck Price in 2015 and is a member of the firm’s Estate, Gift & Charitable Planning and Elder and Special Needs Practice Groups. He focuses his practice primarily on estate planning and estate administration.
On the planning side, he counsels clients, ranging from young families to high-net-worth individuals, to develop an estate plan tailored and customized to meet their needs and wishes. He prepares numerous estate planning documents including, but not limited to, power of attorneys, advance directives for health care, last wills and testaments, revocable living trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, irrevocable gift trusts, spousal lifetime access trusts (SLATs), and grantor retained annuity trusts.
Jordan prides himself on his ability not only to create an efficient estate plan, but one that the client can understand.
Jordan navigates his clients through probate and advising on all matters pertaining to the decedent's assets. This can range from helping get the Executor/Administrator appointed with the Surrogate's Court, to assisting in gathering assets and paying off debts, to preparing estate tax returns and inheritance tax returns.Jordan also assists seniors, individuals with special needs, and their families, in planning for incapacity and establishing and maintaining eligibility for government benefits.
Prior to joining Schenck Price, Jordan worked as an attorney in the estate department of a large, well-known Baltimore law firm and at the Baltimore County Register of Wills.
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- January 29, 2024Estate Planning for Your Young Family
- June 12, 2023Jordan M. Wassel Presented "Estate Planning 101"
- December 8, 2022Gary Mazart, Shirley Whitenack, and Jordan Wassel Present at the 24th Annual Elder and Disability Law Symposium
- Nov 23, 2022Wine and Wills with Catherine O'Hern and Jordan Wassel
- Dec 17, 2021Mazart and Wassel Present on Elder and Special Needs Transfer and Trust Planning
- Dec 1, 202022nd Annual Elder & Disability Law Symposium
- Oct 22, 201820th Annual Elder and Disability Law Symposium
- December 5, 2023Estate, Gift, and Generation Skipping Transfer Tax Exclusion Amounts for 2024
- Oct 21, 2022Estate, Gift and Generation Skipping Transfer Tax Exclusion Amounts for 2023
- Nov 30, 2021Estate, Gift and Generation Skipping Transfer Tax Exclusion Amounts for 2022
- Jul 28, 2021Governor Murphy Signs Permanent Law Permitting Remote Notarial Services
- Jan 27, 2021ALS Disability Insurance Access Act of 2019 Signed Into Law
- Jan 4, 2021Estate, Gift, and Generation Skipping Transfer Tax Exclusion Amounts for 2021
- Jan 6, 2020The SECURE Act: Impact on IRAs and other Retirement Plans and on Estate, Elder Law and Special Needs Planning
- Mar 3, 2017The Affordable Care Act and Your 2016 Income Tax Return
- Oct 18, 2016Repeal of the New Jersey Estate Tax
- September 10, 20242024 Elder and Disability Law Symposium
- August 15, 2024Seventeen Schenck Price Attorneys Named to The Best Lawyers in America® and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch
- August 17, 2023Nineteen Schenck Price Attorneys Named to The Best Lawyers in America® and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch
- August 8, 2023Jennifer A. Golub and Jordan M. Wassel Promoted to Counsel at Schenck Price
- July 20, 2023Three Schenck Price Attorneys Honored with 2023 New Jersey Legal Awards
- Aug 18, 202110 Schenck Price Attorneys Named to Best Lawyers List; 4 to the List of "Ones to Watch"
- Aug 19, 20219 Schenck Price Attorneys Named to Best Lawyers List; 5 to the List of "Ones to Watch"
- Sep 29, 2020Estate Planning for Your Young Family: If Not Now, When? Back by Popular Demand!
- May 27, 2020Estate Planning for Your Young Family: If Not Now, When?
- Oct 22, 2018NJICLE 20th Annual Elder & Disability Law Symposium
- Apr 2, 2018World Autism Awareness Day
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- New Leaders of the Bar Honoree, 2023 New Jersey Legal Awards by the New Jersey Law Journal
- Listed among the "Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch" in the fields of Elder Law and Trusts and Estates (2022-2025)*
- Selected to Morris County's Top Lawyers list (2023-2024)
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- Co-presenter, "Trust Taxation for the Elder and Special Needs Practitioner," 2024 Elder and Disability Law Symposium, September 10, 2024
- Author, "Estate, Gift, and Generation Skipping Transfer Tax Exclusion Amounts for 2024," December 5, 2023
- Author, Navigating the §645 Election, The New Jersey Law Journal, March 20, 2023
- Co-Author, "The Impact of the SECURE Act and the Applicable Multi-Beneficiary Trust," New Jersey Lawyer: Elder Law issue, December 2022
- Speaker, NJICLE's Elder and Disability Law Symposium, December 8, 2022
- Speaker, "Estate Planning for Your Young Family," Ridgewood Newcomers, November 30, 2022
- Author, "Estate, Gift and Generation Skipping Transfer Tax Exclusion Amounts for 2023," October 21, 2022
- Co-presenter, "Elder and Special Needs Transfer and Trust Planning Under Proposed Biden Tax Law Changes," NJICLE’s Elder and Disability Law Symposium, December 17, 2021
- Author, "Estate, Gift and Generation Skipping Transfer Tax Exclusion Amounts for 2022," November 30, 2021
- Author, "Governor Murphy Signs Permanent Law Permitting Remote Notarial Services," July 28, 2021
- Co-presenter, "Comparing Trusts and Outright Transfers in Long Term Care and Estate Planning," Sophisticated Elder Law Conference, July 14, 2021
- Author, "ALS Disability Insurance Access Act of 2019 Signed Into Law," January 27, 2021
- Author, "Estate, Gift, and Generation Skipping Transfer Tax Exclusion Amounts for 2021," January 4, 2021
- Co-speaker, "Estate and Gift Tax Planning: 20/20 Vision," NJICLE's 22nd Annual Elder & Disability Law Symposium, December 1, 2020
- Co-presenter, "Estate Planning for Your Young Family Family: If Not Now, When?" Schenck Price webinar, September 29, 2020
- Co-presenter, "Estate Planning for Your Young Family: If Not Now, When?" Schenck Price webinar, May 27, 2020
- Co-presenter, "Learn How to Handle the Elder Law Matters You're Bound to Encounter," 2020 Elder Law in a Day seminar, New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education, January 29, 2020
- Author, "The SECURE Act: Impact on IRAs and Other Retirement Plans and on Estate, Elder Law and Special Needs Planning," January 6, 2020
- Co-presenter, "Highlights of Basic New Jersey Estate Administration," Lawline, September 2019
- Speaker, Estate and Gift Planning after TCJA 2017 and Repeal of the New Jersey Estate Tax " 2018 Elder and Disability Law Symposium"
- Author, "Do I Need Estate Plan?" Meadowlands Chamber of Commerce Magazine
- Speaker, Tax Cuts and Job Act (TCJA 2017): Impact on Seniors and Person with Disabilities"2018 Elder Law in a Day"
- Co-Author, The Affordable Care Act and Your 2016 Income Tax Return, March 3, 2017
- Co-authored “New Jersey Death Tax Returns and Issues Related to Taxation of Special Needs and Supplemental Benefits Trusts” Presented for 2015 NJICLE Elder Law Retreat
- Co-Authored “Selected Elder Law and Special Needs Law Update and Related Tax and Planning Issues” Presented for the 2015 NJICLE Estate Planning Summer Institute
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- Counsel to the Board, Mimi Washington Starrett Foundation
- Member, Estate Planning Council of Northern New Jersey
- Member, New Jersey State Bar Association