Author: Kevin Pollock

Kevin A. Pollock, Esq., LL.M. Kevin is the Managing Partner at The Pollock Firm LLC. He works at both the Lawrenceville, NJ office and the Boca Raton, FL office. Kevin focuses in tax, estate planning, probate, business law, charitable giving and trust administration. Kevin graduated from Rutgers College, with a B.A. in History and a minor in Japanese. He was the recipient of the Henry Rutgers Research Scholarship and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. During his junior year, Kevin studied abroad at the Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan and can speak conversational Japanese. Kevin received his Juris Doctorate and Sports Law Certificate from Tulane Law School in 1999 where he was a Legal Research and Writing Fellow, the APALSA Secretary, and a member of the Asian/Pacific-American Law Students Association Moot Court Team. Kevin graduated from New York University Law School in 2000 with a master's degree in taxation, with a concentration in estate and gift taxation. Kevin A. Pollock is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida. Kevin is a member of the New Jersey Bar Association, the Mercer County Bar Association, and the Mercer County Estate Planning Council.

Everything You Should Know About Stretch IRA Trusts

Stretch IRA Trusts are specifically designed to receive retirement funds in a tax efficient manner.

Estate Administration and Bad Credit

Everybody knows that good credit is important for receiving favorable financing terms when buying a car or a house. Let me give you another reason to keep your credit up – Estate Administration and Bad Credit can cause serious problems. Generally, if you have bad credit, you will NOT be allowed to act as the […]

Pet Trusts (Trusts for Animals)

The attorneys at The Pollock Firm LLC are available to assist you if you wish to create an animal trust or a pet trust.

Robert J. Goldberg, Esq. Joins The Pollock Firm

The Pollock Firm LLC is pleased to announce that Robert J. Goldberg has joined our firm as an associate attorney. Rob grew up in Haddonfield, New Jersey and graduated cum laude from Rutgers New Brunswick in 2014 with a B.A. in Communications. In 2018, Rob received his Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers Law School in Camden, […]

How to Manage a Revocable Trust

Back in May of 2022, I wrote a post explaining What is a Revocable Living Trust. In this post, I would like to focus on how to manage a Revocable Trust. (I will be using the term Revocable Trust and Living Trust to mean the same thing.) In understanding how to manage a Revocable Trust, […]

Fake Will – An Extreme Example to Help Understand NJ Intestate Laws

Have you ever wondered what happens if you don’t have a Will? The answer is that you die intestate, and the laws of the state in which you are domiciled govern. Since reading through the statutes can be tricky, I have created a sample Fake Will so that you can better visualize the effect of […]

Inflation Updates for 2023

Every year the Internal Revenue Service publishes a list of inflation adjustments. You can find them on the IRS website in Revenue Procedure 2022-38. Here are the important inflation updates for 2023 that relate to Gift and Estate Taxes and others that are just useful: Federal Estate & Gift Tax Inflation Updates for 2023 2023 […]

Understanding Basis

The original cost of an asset is only the starting point for determining basis.

IRS Now Allows For 5 Year Estate Tax Portability Election

Under a new IRS ruling, a surviving spouse now has 5 years to make an estate tax portability election. The relevant IRS revenue procedure can be found here: Revenue Procedure 2022-32. The 5 year rule can only be used if an estate tax return isn’t otherwise required to be filed. What is Estate Tax Portability? […]