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Amy C. O’Hara
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Amy C. O’Hara is a partner with the law firm of Littman Krooks LLP. Her practice focuses in the areas of elder law, estate planning and administration, trust administration, guardianship, special needs planning and personal injury settlement consulting.

Amy lectures frequently to advocacy and professional organizations and families on the importance of proper planning for families of children with special needs. She regularly publishes articles relating to elder law, estate and special needs planning.

Amy is Certified as an Elder Law Attorney (CELA®) by the National Elder Law Foundation and is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA).

She is the President-Elect of the Board of Directors of the Special Needs Alliance, a national, not-for-profit organization dedicated to assisting families with special needs planning. Amy is also the President of the Board of Directors of Westchester Disabled on the Move, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that aims to improve the quality of life and the rights for all people with disabilities.

She is a member of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), Elder Law and Trusts & Estates Sections of the NYSBA, Westchester County Bar Association, and Mamaroneck-Harrison-Larchmont Bar Association.

Amy received her Juris Doctor degree from University at Buffalo Law School and received her Bachelor of Science degree from Binghamton University.

Amy is married and the mother of two sons.

 

Articles

• Advocating for Least Restrictive Alternatives in Plenary Guardianships
• Has Your Supplemental Needs Trust Been Reviewed Lately?
• Supplemental Needs Trusts: How They Can Help Your Child with Special Needs
• ABLE Accounts: Important New Program for Children with Disabilities
• Letter to Our Clients Regarding Recent Tax Act
• Organizations That Help Individuals with Disabilities: The Special Needs Alliance
• IRS Increases Annual Exclusion for Gifts
• ABLE Account Update
• Is Your Estate Plan Up-To-Date?
• The Special Needs Fairness Act Becomes Law
• The Special Needs Fairness Act Passes
• ABLE Account Update
• Your Questions on Estate Planning: You Should Know About ‘Pour-Over’ Plans and Revocable Trusts (WSJ, featuring Amy C.O’Hara, Esq.)
• Changes in SSI Benefit Payments in New York
• Why SNTs Are Still Appropriate in Cases Involving the NYS Medical Indemnity Fund
• Your Special Needs Trust (“SNT”) Defined
• Educational Rights and Legal Considerations for Your Young or Adult Child with Asperger’s or High-Functioning Autism
• “Early Termination Provisions in First Party Self Settled and Pooled Trusts – Recent Changes to the POMS”
• Taxation of Special Needs Trusts: An Overview (NYSSCPA Tax Stringer May 2012 Vol.3 No.5)
• Your Special Needs Trust Explained (The Voice, August 2010 Vol. 4. Issue 2)
• Letter of Intent (The Voice, July 2013 – Vol. 7, Issue 6) – (Reprinted with permission of the Special Needs Alliance – www.specialneedsalliance.org.)
• Your Questions on Estate Planning: You Should Know About ‘Pour-Over’ Plans and Revocable Trusts (WSJ, featuring Amy C.O’Hara, Esq.)